Describe Four Major Schedules of Partial Reinforcement and Their Effects

question 363

Essay

Describe four major schedules of partial reinforcement and their effects on behaviour.

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Definitions:

Maintenance Rehearsal

Practice of saying some information to be remembered over and over in one’s head in order to maintain it in short-term memory.

Repeating Items

The act of presenting the same items or information multiple times to reinforce memory or learning.

Eyewitness Testimony

Evidence provided by individuals who were present during an event, often used in court, which can be highly influential but sometimes unreliable due to memory inaccuracies.

False Positive

An error in data reporting in which a test result improperly indicates presence of a condition (such as a disease) when it is not actually present.