Acquisition and extinction of the conditioned eyelid response following partial and continuous reinforcement.

Abstract

"The continuous-reinforcement schedule produced a significantly higher level of response during conditioning trials than the partial-reinforcement schedule. The same result was obtained when the two reinforcement conditions were compared in terms of number of reinforced trials…. Partial-reinforcement Ss extinguished with the UCS present, maintained a consistently higher level of response than those extinguished without the UCS." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)