If you give a dog s treat ten min after they did a trick, you’ll be reinforcing whatever they did right before the treat (sniffing?), what type of reinforcement is this?
- Immediate reinforcement
Humans have the ability to link a consequence to a behavior even if they aren’t linked sequentially in time
- Delayed reinforcement
Delayed gratification
- skill related to impulse control, enables longer-term goal setting
continuous reinforcement
- (giving a reward for the target every single time), subject acquires the desired behavior quickly
partial/intermittent reinforcement
- (giving rewards part of the time), target behavior takes longer to be acquired/established by persists longer without reward
Fixed interval schedule
- reward every hour
Variable interval schedule
- reward after a changing/ random amount of time passes
Fixed ratio schedule
- reward every five targeted behaviors
Variable ratio schedule
- reward after a randomly chosen instance of the target behavior
interval
- reinforcements based on an amount of time that has gone by
ratio
- rewards per number of instances of the desired behavior
rat gets food every 3rd time it presses the lever
- fixed ratio
getting paid weekly no matter how much work is done
- fixed interval
getting paid for every 10 boxes you make
- fixed ratio
Hitting a jackpot sometimes on the slot machine
- variable ratio
checking cell phone all day; sometimes getting a text
- Variable interval
Buy eight pizzas, get the next one free
- fixed ratio
Fundraiser averages one donation for every eight houses visited
- variable ratio
Kid has tantrum, parents sometimes give in
- variable ratio
Repeatedly checking mail until paycheck arrives
- fixed interval
