Reinforcement in Learning and Extinction

Duration: 8 min

Year Published: 1956

Creator: MCGH

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Attempts to prove the principle that reinforced behavior gets learned, while non-reinforced behavior is extinguised. Young children learn to get what they want first by crying, and later by asking. Depicts pigeons learning to get what they want through means of selective reinforcement of response., Shows how pigeons are taught abnormal behavior patterns by means of selective reinforcement of response and how the removal of the reinforcement causes the gradual extinguishing of the learned response. Derives from the experiments basic principles about learned behavior which are applicable in the training of children. Shows how behavior that is reinforced does get learned while non-reinforced behavior is extinguished.

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