Young Tyler learned that his mother always hides the cookies on the top shelf of the hall closet. After Tyler's mother noticed cookies missing, she decided to hide the cookie jar in a new place. After several unrewarding trips to the top shelf of the hall closet, Tyler stops looking there. Skinner would say that the disappearance of this response is due to:

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Kadyn Henry

29 April, 11:18

Young Tyler learned that his mother always hides the cookies on the top shelf of the hall closet. After Tyler's mother noticed cookies missing, she decided to hide the cookie jar in a new place. After several unrewarding trips to the top shelf of the hall closet, Tyler stops looking there. Skinner would say that the disappearance of this response is due to:

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Kaitlynn Farrell · Answer 1

The answer is: Extinction.

Explanation:

In operant conditioning, when a conditioned behavior decreases or disappears, it is called extinction. Extinction can be produced by many factors, in Tyler's case, the behavior of going to the cookie jar disappeared because he stopped finding cookies there. According to Skinner, the behavior disappeared because there was no longer a reinforcer of that behavior. In this case, the cookies were the reinforcer that used to follow the discriminative stimulus (the cookie jar), when there were no more cookies Tyler stopped going to the cookie jar, the behavior disappeared.