Question

A trainer wants a pigeon to quickly learn to peck a button to obtain food. She also wants to be sure the behavior is resistant to extinction. So, she should use ________ reinforcement until the response is mastered followed by ________ reinforcement.A)positive; negative.B)negative; positive.C)continuous; partial.D)partial; continuous.

Answer 1

Answer:continuous; partial

Explanation:

Continuous reinforcement refers to reinforcing a behavior by repeating it several times until you are certain that it has been grasped by the subject.

This means each time you teach the behavior because a new behavior is still foreign to a subject, they need to be introduced to it and constantly taught every time until they can be familiar with it; then over time when you realise that they have grasped the behavior you have to teach it only partially just to make sure it doesn't fade away again over time and it becomes part of them and when the reinforcement is done only part of the time this is partially reinforcement.