Educational Psychology / Unit 4 EDP 0321 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Extinction
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The idea
Extinction is the fading of a behavior once it is no longer reinforced, in both classical and operant conditioning.
In practice
A student who stops getting laughs for clowning gradually clowns less, and then hardly at all.
Where people slip
Removing one source of reinforcement may not be enough when classmates supply another.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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