The partial reinforcement extinction effect: The proportion of trials reinforced during conditioning predicts the number of trials to extinction

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Animal learning and cognition Vol. 45; no. 1; p. 43
• Main Authors: Chan, C K Jonas, Harris, Justin A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.01.2019

Four experiments compared the extinction of responding to a continuously reinforced (CRf) conditioned stimulus (conditional stimulus [CS]) consistently reinforced on every trial, with extinction of responding to a partially reinforced (PRf) CS that had been inconsistently reinforced. To equate the a...