Domjan Chapter 9

P252  Define extinction.  How does it apply to operant and Pavlovian conditioning?

P 253   Describe the main effects of extinction. 

P254 -  Explain extinction induced aggression.   How do you think this contributes to violence in real life?  Can you think of an example of when this occurred?  How could the violence have been prevented?

P257 What is spontaneous recovery?

P259  Explain renewal?   How does the Bouton and King experiment demonstrate renewal.  What does renewal indicate about the learning that takes place during extinction?  What are the implications of this phenomenon for designing effective treatment programs based on extinction?

P260  Why is there more contextual control over extinction than over initial conditioning?

P261 – How can spontaneous recovery be considered an example of renewal?

P261 What is reinstatement?   What does it tell us about the learning that takes place in extinction?

P262   How can you think of reinstatement as another example of renewal?

P264 – What does Rescorla’s Pavlovian experiment on US devaluation tell you about the nature of associations in Pavlovian conditioning?  What does it tell you about how those associations change after extinction?

P266 Explain how Rescorla’s operant experiment shows that response-outcome associations remain intact after extinction.

P267  What is the evidence that extinction inhibits responding.  What is the nature of this inhibition?

P269  What are the “paradoxical” reward effects in extinction?

P270  What is the partial reinforcement effect?  On the four basic schedules of reinforcement what will generate greater resistance to extinction?

P272  Explain the discrimination hypothesis.

P272  Explain the frustration theory explanation of PREE.

P273   Explain the Sequential Theory of PREE.

P273   How do the three accounts relate to each other?