extinction: nonreinforcement of a previously reinforced response, the result of which is a decrease in the strength of the response

• procedure: nonreinforcement of a previously reinforced response

• process: resultant decrease in response strength

side effects of extinction

• extinction burst: temporary increase in frequency and intensity of responding when extinction is first implemented

• increase in variability

• emotional behavior: frustration

• aggression

• resurgence: reappearance during extinction of other behaviors that had once been effective in obtaining reinforcement

• depression

resistance to extinction: responding persists after an extinction procedure has been implemented

• schedule of reinforcement. partial reinforcement effect says that behavior on a partial schedule will extinguish slower than behavior on a continuous schedule

• history of reinforcement: the more reinforcers an individual has received for a behavior, the greater the resistance to extinction

• magnitude of reinforcer: large-magnitude reinforcers result in greater resistance to extinction than small-magnitude reinforcers

• degree of deprivation: greater the level of deprivation, the greater the resistance to extinction

• previous experience with extinction: when sessions of extinction are alternated with sessions of reinforcement, the greater the number of prior exposures to extinction, the quicker the behavior will extinguish during subsequent exposures

• distinctive signal for extinction: extinction is greatly facilitated when there is a distinctive stimulus that signals the onset of extinction

spontaneous recovery: reappearance of an extinguished response following a rest period after extinction

differential reinforcement of other behavior: extinguishing the target behavior and reinforcement the occurrence of a replacement behavior

• ex: functional communication training with jonah from tiktok

stimulus control: presence of a discriminative stimulus reliably affects the probability of the behavior

• at red lights we stop

stimulus generalization: tendency for an operant response to be emitted in the presence of a stimulus that is similar to the responding stimulus

generalization gradient: graphic description of the strength of responding in the presence of stimuli that are similar to the sd and that vary along a continuum

stimulus discrimination: tendency for an operant response to be emitted more in the presence of one stimulus than another

discrimination training: involves reinforcement of responding in the presence of one stimulus and not another stimulus

• discriminative stimulus for extinction: stimulus that signals the absence of reinforcement

peak shift effect: peak of a generalization gradient following discrimination training will shift from the sd to a stimulus that is further removed from the striangle