Educational Psychology / Unit 4 EDP 0323 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Intermittent Reinforcement
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The idea
Intermittent reinforcement, given only some of the time, makes a behavior slower to learn but also slower to extinguish than reinforcement given every time.
In practice
Praise that arrives now and then keeps a good habit going after praise becomes rare.
Where people slip
The same effect works against teachers: clowning that is only sometimes rewarded by laughter is hard to extinguish.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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