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| susceptibility of responding to disruption by manipulations such as presession feeding, delivery of free food, or a change in the schedule of reinforcement |
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| establishment of a memory in relatively permanent form so that it is available for retrieval a long time after original acquisition |
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| continuous reinforcement (CRF) |
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| schedule of reinforcement in which every occurrence of the instrumental response produces the reinforcer |
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| discrimination hypothesis |
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| explanation of the partial-reinforcement extinction effect according to which extinction is slower after partial reinforcement than continuous reinforcement because the onset of extinction is more difficult to detect following partial reinforcement |
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| reduction of a learned response that occurs because the CS is no longer paired with the US; also, the procedure of repeatedly presenting a CS without a US |
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| extinction (instrumental) |
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| reduction of the instrumental response that occurs because the response is no longer followed by the reinforcer; also the procedure of no longer reinforcing the instrumental response |
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| loss of a learned response that occurs because info about training is irrevocably lost due to the passage of time; contrasted with extinction, which is produced by a specific procedure rather than the passage of time |
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| an aversive emotional reaction that results from the unexpected absence of reinforcement |
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| theory of the partial-reinforcement extinction effect, according to which extinction is slower after partial reinforcement because the instrumental response becomes conditioned to the anticipation of frustrative nonreward |
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| intermittent reinforcement |
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| schedule of reinforcement in which only some of the occurrences of the instrumental response are reinforced; instrumental response is reinforced occasionally; also called partial reinforcement |
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| overtraining extinction effect |
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| less persistence of instrumental behavior in extinction following extensive training with reinforcement than following only moderate levels of training; this effect is most prominent with continuous reinforcement |
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| magnitude reinforcement extinction effect |
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| less persistence of instrumental behavior in extinction following training with a large reinforcer than following training with a small or moderate reinforcer; this effect is most prominent with continuous reinforcement |
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| partial-reinforcement extinction effect |
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| term used to describe greater persistence in instrumental responding in extinction after partial reinforcement training than after continuous reinforcement training |
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| reappearance of an extinguished response produced by exposure to the US or reinforcer |
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| reappearance of an extinguished response produced by a shift away from the contextual cues that were present during extinction; in ABA, shift is back to the context of acquisition; in ABC, the shift is to a familiar context unrelated to either acquisition or extinction |
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| reappearance of an extinguished response caused by the extinction of another behavior |
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| theory of the partial-reinforcement extinction effect according to which extinction is retarded after partial reinforcement because the instrumental response becomes conditioned to the memory of nonreward |
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| reappearance of an extinguished response caused by the passage of time |
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