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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
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Subject: Re: An Ex-Atheist Speaks
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Date: Sat, 7-Apr-84 02:02:24 EST
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Posted: Sat Apr  7 02:02:24 1984
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>> >Then I started praying and getting occasional results.

>> Intermittent reinforcement is more effective than consistent
>> reinforcement.
>> Anyone with a background in behavioral psych care to fill in more?

Well, not quite.  Behaviors that have been conditioned through
partial reinforcement take longer to learn, and they are more difficult
to extinguish than those established through consistent reinforcement,
since it is harder to distinguish true withdrawal of the stimulus.
Like almost all concepts in psychology, if you can hack the semantics
it's simply common sense.  Glad that degree isn't going completely
to waste:  MS, Social Psychology, University of Wisconsin, 1973.
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