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Extinction after partial reinforcement: predicted vs. judged persistence.

Frode Svartdal1

  • 1Department of Psychology, University of Tromsø, Norway. frodes@psyk.uit.no

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology
|February 27, 2003
PubMed
Summary

The partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) shows increased persistence after partial reward. Cognitive predictions of this effect were inaccurate, but judgments of persistence behavior were accurate post-manifestation.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Behavioral Science
  • Learning Theory

Background:

  • The partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) is a key finding in learning studies, demonstrating increased response persistence after partial reward schedules.
  • While PREE is theorized to involve cognitive and emotional factors, research has predominantly relied on behavioral measures.
  • A gap exists in understanding how cognitive processes represent PREE before and after its behavioral expression.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether the partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) is reflected in cognitive measures in human adults.
  • To examine if cognitive predictions and judgments of persistence align with behavioral observations under extinction conditions following different reinforcement schedules.

Main Methods:

  • Four experiments were conducted with human adults learning instrumental responses under continuous reinforcement (CRF) versus partial reinforcement (PRF) conditions.

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  • Participants predicted their own persistence during extinction (Experiments 1-3) and judged their persistence behavior (Experiments 3-4).

    • Main Results:

    • Cognitive predictions of persistence were not influenced by prior continuous or partial reinforcement history.
    • Subsequent judgments of persistence behavior accurately reflected the PREE after the behavior had manifested.

    Conclusions:

    • Increased persistence in PREE is not accurately represented cognitively before its behavioral occurrence.
    • Cognitive awareness of PREE emerges and accurately reflects the behavior after it has been exhibited.
    • The findings suggest a dissociation between cognitive representation and behavioral manifestation of PREE, with implications for understanding learning and memory.