The Benefits Of Intermittent Reinforcement
- Rewarding the behavior immediately may take time away from the behavior’s continuation.
- It’s cheaper not to reward every instance of a desired behavior.
- By making the rewards unpredictable, you trigger excitement and thus get an increase in response without increasing the amount of reinforcement.
- Since the person is already adapted to not always being rewarded, they take longer to stopping the behavior when reinforcement is removed.
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