Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
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Based on a micro-analysis of 'Schedules of Reinforcement' under the 'Operant Conditioning Theory' propounded by B. F. Skinner, if the time of giving reinforcement or the number of responses after a response is kept uncertain and variable (for example, gambling or playing the lottery), which of the following statements is most authentically and scientifically true regarding the elemental and behavioral dynamics of this specific schedule?
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According to B. F. Skinner's operant conditioning, when reinforcement is given variably rather than based on a fixed pattern—especially in a variable ratio schedule—the organism does not know when the next reinforcement will arrive. Due to this uncertainty, the rate of response becomes very rapid, and extinction of the learned habit is most difficult.
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