Time-out from positive reinforcement.
When an organism can itself impose extinction during fixed-ratio food reinforcement, the duration of the extinction period is a function of the number of responses required for reinforcement. Typically, the subject imposes extinction at the start of the usual fixed-ratio run.
D003216:Conditioning, Operant; D005108:Extinction, Psychological; D007858:Learning; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
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