BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION: EXTINCTION

Behavior Modification: Extinction of Behavior of Sniffy the Virtual Rat



Behavior Modification: Extinction of Behavior of

Sniffy the Virtual Rat

Abstract

The persistence of behavior over time, altered and intensified by the strengthening implies that a high frequency of cumulative effects will reinforce and strengthen the behavior more so than a low frequency of reinforcement. The "molding" of the reinforcement, the effect of changing certain properties of behavior correlated with reinforcement, to a greater extent than the effects of "quantitative" of a reinforcer on behavior. Here we consider the empirical evidence linking the generalized force of the response with quantitative properties of the reinforcer. It takes into account, especially the relationship between the frequency of reinforcement and response rate.

Introduction

Behavior modification is the approach used by behavioral psychologists (watered-down behaviorists) to modify behavior (Surprise!). It is usually based on the reinforcement of desired behaviors and ignoring (as far as possible) undesired ones. (Atherton, 2011)

Extinction is when the occurrences of a conditioned response decrease or disappear. In classical conditioning, this happens when a conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Classical conditioning, also called Pavlovian conditioning and respondent conditioning or stimulus-response model (ER) is a type of associative learning that was first demonstrated by Ivan Pavlov. The simplest form of classical conditioning remembers what Aristotle called the law of contiguity. In essence when two things commonly occur together, the appearance of the other to bring the mind.

Literature Review

The notion that the reinforcement creates a "pool" of responses was a concept important integrative work of Skinner's early. In the twenty subsequent years there was hardly any research on the general quantitative relationships between the response rate and reinforcement, for example, in the work of Reinforcement Schedules ("reinforcement schedules") is little emphasis on the functional relationships between the rate and intermittent program parameters. In recent years, has again developed an active interest in the topic, but only a small portion of the contemporary work on force feedback. (Gary et al, 2010)

Multiple experiments have shown that the response rate is directly related to the strength of reinforcement in the interval programs, in fact, is a professional relationship. Still, in other experiments clearly shows this relationship. As Herrnstein notes, this insensitivity of the response rate to reinforcement rate decreases probably our interest in the concept of force feedback. In general, it appears that the response rate is not very sensitive to the frequency of reinforcement in situations covered by a single program with a single key and the frequency response of reinforcement more often in situations involving in programs established concurrently, some series programs and multiple programs (Moore, 2011). Recent Experiments mostly involving concurrent programs to respond on response keys simultaneously present indicated that, under certain conditions it is possible to design situations where the frequency of reinforcement is a factor in the response of the subject. (Jacob, 2011) These results can be seen in part as a confirmation and extension of Anger concluded that the relative frequency of reinforcement of different ...