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INDUCTION, CONTRAST, AND RESISTANCE TO EXTINCTION 1
Author(s) -
Reynolds G. S.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1968.11-453
Subject(s) - extinction (optical mineralogy) , reinforcement , contrast (vision) , schedule , interval (graph theory) , psychology , component (thermodynamics) , mathematics , social psychology , physics , combinatorics , computer science , optics , thermodynamics , operating system
The resistance of responding to extinction after variable‐interval reinforcement in one of two components of a multiple schedule of reinforcement was (1) greater, when responding in the second component was reinforced on a variable‐interval schedule than when responding there was extinguished, (2) not reduced, by a more rapid decrease in the rate of responding than occurs in ordinary extinction in the second component, and, (3) increased, by the occurrence of positive behavioral contrast before the beginning of extinction.