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  • Behavioral psychology
  • Animal learning
  • Extinction phenomena

Background:

  • The partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) describes slower extinction after partial reinforcement.
  • Sequential theory posits that learning nonreinforced trial sequences during acquisition explains the PREE.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if learning trial sequences during conditioning is necessary for the PREE.
  • To examine the role of sequential learning in the partial reinforcement extinction effect.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments trained rats with a single fixed trial sequence.
  • Assessed sequential learning during conditioning and subsequent PREE during extinction.

Main Results:

  • Some rats learned the sequence but did not show a PREE.
  • Other rats showed a PREE without learning the trial sequences.
  • Results contradict sequential theory's predictions.

Conclusions:

  • Learning trial sequences is neither necessary nor sufficient for the PREE.
  • The PREE may be driven by uncertainty regarding conditioned stimulus reinforcement.