Sentence examples for partial reinforcement from inspiring English sources

In contrast, according to a trial-based view (e.g., Capaldi, 1967), the PREE occurs because the organism has learned in partial reinforcement to expect the reinforcer after a larger number of CS presentations.

According to a time-based or "time-accumulation" view (e.g., Gallistel and Gibbon, 2000), the PREE occurs because the organism has learned in partial reinforcement to expect the reinforcer after a larger amount of time has accumulated in the CS over trials.

During probe trials the signal was presented as in regular trials but the responses of the animals were never reinforced, providing a partial reinforcement schedule for the mice.

When reinforcer rates are manipulated in within-subjects designs, persistence in subsequent extinction trials is sometimes greater to the response alternative associated with the higher reinforcer rate ("reversed" partial reinforcement extinction effect, RPREE).

For this, we used a spatial judgement task in a go/no-go paradigm with partial reinforcement and a mildly aversive negative reinforcer.

In ferrimagnetic materials, the spontaneous arrangement is a combination of both patterns, usually involving two different magnetic atoms, so that only partial reinforcement of magnetic fields occurs.

In a partial-reinforcement design, CS+ may be paired or unpaired with the US.

We assessed differential conditioning (CS+ = blue slides and conditioned stimulus negative [CS ] = red slides) with partial (56%) reinforcement during acquisition, following Bechara and Damasio (46).

In Experiment 1 the solutions were flavored with either 5% or 0.5% almond essence and in Experiment 2 with 2% almond essence, but combined with continuous or partial schedules of reinforcement.

The present experiment tested effects of d-amphetamine (0.5 mg/kg or 1.5 mg/kg administered 15 min prior to conditioning) in appetitive acquisition under partial versus continuous reinforcement of alternative CSs with sucrose pellet UCS delivery.

In 1994 a proposal was published in the Structural Engineer [1] that the partial safety factor for reinforcement be reduced from 1.15 to 1.05.