Intermittent reinforcement
Intermittent reinforcement is a phenomenon of operant conditioning in psychology and pedagogy (learning through reinforcement, also: reinforcement learning). Intermittent reinforcement describes the non-regular reinforcement ( reinforcement ) of a (desired) behavior by means of a reinforcer (e.g. a child gets chocolate every now and then if it has helped the mother around the house; since the child does not know when it will get chocolate , it shows the behavior - helping around the house - more often, so it was reinforced). Learning occurs more slowly with intermittent reinforcement than with continuous reinforcement, but the behavior is much more resistant to erasure.
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- ↑ David G. Myers: Psychology . 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-40781-9 , pp. 304 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).