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The best way to promote fast learning and high resistance to extinction is to reinforce the desired behavior continuously at first, then shift to a partial, variable schedule. |
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Habituation is an increase in the strength of a response to a repeated stimulus. |
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Aversion therapies often produce only short-term results. |
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Thorndike proposed the law of effect, which states that, in a given situation, a response followed by a "satisfying" consequence will become more likely to occur and a response followed by an "annoying" consequence will become less likely to occur. |
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In classical conditioning, the conditioned stimulus occurs before the conditioned response and triggers it. In operant conditioning, the reinforcing or punishing consequences occur AFTER a response is made. |
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Negative reinforcement is another term for punishment. |
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Studies of children in Sweden show that corporal punishment is associated with better child development outcomes. |
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An example of aversive punishment is a child's touching a hot stovetop burner. The pain delivered by the burner makes it less likely that the child will touch it in the future. |
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When a misbehaving child is punished with a "timeout," they are experiencing response cost, also known as negative punishment. |
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Some businesses pay employees using "piece work," in which the wages are based on a set number of items produced. In behavioral terms, this is a fixed-interval schedule of reinforcement. |
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