intermittent reinforcement

Distributed practice is similar in effect to intermittent reinforcement.

Shift to intermittent reinforcement to maintain the student's performance.

Intermittent reinforcement will do just as well, and sometimes even better at eliciting the desired behavior.

Also, the game itself may influence gamblers to continue gambling because of the intermittent reinforcement.

"People are willing to have intermittent reinforcement of what they want to have happen.

Unwittingly she was operating the intermittent reinforcement principle in support of a bad habit!

Mands to an unreliable car to "come on and start" for example may be due to a history of intermittent reinforcement.

In human terms, hope springs eternal in the heart of someone conditioned with intermittent reinforcement.

(The effective use of intermittent reinforcement as a rewarding strategy is discussed on page 59.)

Intermittent reinforcement - reinforcement is delivered on a schedule less often than for each occurrence of a behaviour.

Psychologists would call racing intermittent reinforcement.

Some scholars suggest that psycho-social dependence may revolve around the intermittent reinforcements in the game and the need to belong.

Intermittent reinforcement.

The technical term for intermittent reinforcement is 'partial reinforcement' and represents the most powerful way of developing and changing behaviour.

Both continual and intermittent reinforcement schedules are used, as are punishment and even traumatic one-trial learning.

The occasional or once-in-a-while reward (intermittent reinforcement) will consolidate an established bad habit more effectively than a reward given every time.

The consistency of continual reinforcement-even if it is negative-produces far less anxiety and stress in the recipient than unpredictable, random, or intermittent reinforcement.

Originally, in Skinner's animal research, "some pigeons responded up to 10,000 times without reinforcement when they had originally been conditioned on an intermittent reinforcement basis."

Tactical gameplay lacking base and unit building is similar to real-time tactics (RTT) games, some of which feature intermittent reinforcements.

Game-making companies hire psychologists to help them to design the right intermittent reinforcement schedule, but there is little effort on the part of these companies to put out warnings.

Psychologists call this intermittent reinforcement, and it basically means that one of the most effective ways to get a specific behavior out of a person is to introduce "perhaps" into the equation.

Traumatic bonding occurs as the result of ongoing cycles of abuse in which the intermittent reinforcement of reward and punishment creates powerful emotional bonds that are resistant to change.

The late behaviorist B. F. Skinner demonstrated that superstitions arise from intermittent reinforcement of a particular act, like a gambler's hitting the jackpot while wearing a certain shirt.

Because intermittent reinforcement is the strongest "maintainer" of behaviour, one or two instances of "giving in" to inappropriate attention-seeking demands is enough to establish a misbehaviour in someone's repertoire.

Psychologists call this pattern "intermittent reinforcement" and it is a very difficult cycle to break in a marriage, especially when you are brought up to believe that there is no way out of a bad situation except to try harder.