According to the Discrimination Hypothesis, the Partial Reinforcement Extinction Effect

question 64

Multiple Choice

According to the discrimination hypothesis, the partial reinforcement extinction effect is due to

• A)the extinction burst that occurs at the beginning of extinction trials.
• B)learning to respond in the face of expected nonreward.
• C)a subject's memories of whether or not it was rewarded for performing the instrumental response in the recent past.
• D)a subject's decreased ability to notice when extinction procedures begin.

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