Exam 9: Extinction of Conditioned Behavior

Your therapist friend has a dilemma. She cannot be available to deliver a reinforcer every time her patients make an appropriate response, but she doesn't want the work she does with them at her office to extinguish between appointments. You suggest

Which theory predicts that early in a VR20 schedule the anticipation of reward encourages an animal to respond, and the anticipation of nonreward discourages responding?

In sequential theory, the pattern important to the development of response perseverance is

Why can reinstatement be considered a special form of renewal?

Describe the partial reinforcement extinction effect and major explanations of the phenomenon.

Which of the following is not considered a paradoxical reward effect?

To restore the level of performance seen during extinction,