George Trains a Pigeon to Peck a Disk by Reinforcing

question 65

Multiple Choice

George trains a pigeon to peck a disk by reinforcing each disk peck. Once the response is learned, George begins to cut back on the reinforcers. At first he reinforces every other response, then every
Third response, every fifth response, every tenth response, and so on. George is using a procedure
Called _________.

• A) ratio tuning
• B) reinforcement decimation
• C) intermittent reinforcement
• D) stretching the ratio

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