Learning — Psychology STD 11 Humanities — Question

Extinction refers to disappearance of a learned response due to removal of reinforcement from the situation in which the response used to occur.Factors influencing extinction:

• Resistance to extinction increases with increasing number of reinforcements during acquisition (learning) trials. Beyond that point any increase in number of reinforcement reduces the resistance to extinction.
• Amount of reinforcement (number of food pellets) increases during learning trials, resistance to extinction decreases.
• Reinforcement in every learning trial makes the learned response to be less resistance to extinction. In contrast, partial reinforcement during learning trials makes a learned response more resistance to extinction.