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| Behaviors maintained with negative reinforcement are placed on escape extinction when those behaviors are not followed by termination of the aversive stimulus; emitting the target behavior does not enable the person to escape the aversive situation. |
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| The discontinuing of a reinforcement of a previously reinforced behavior (i.e., responses no longer produce reinforcement); the primary effect is a decrease in the frequency of the behavior until it reaches a pre-reinforced level or ultimately ceases to occur. |
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| An increase in the frequency of responding when an extinction procedure is initially implemented. |
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| The relative frequency with which operant behavior is emitted during extinction. |
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| The process by which behaviors maintained by automatic reinforcement are placed on extinction by masking or removing the sensory consequence. |
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| A behavioral effect associated with extinction in which the behavior suddenly begins to occur after its frequency has decreased to its pre-reinforcement level or stopped entirely. |
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