The Law of Effect and Need-Gratification
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Why would it be meaningless to say that an event has two or more effects?

Because we need to be able to separate the effects in order to attribute them to the event correctly.

What is the basis for the doctrine of 'need-gratification' in psychotherapy?

The fact that behavior strengthened by deprivation is weakened by satiation.

How can an operation have two effects that change the probability of behavior in the same direction?

By repeatedly extinguishing and reconditioning a response, particularly on a schedule of intermittent reinforcement.

Can two responses conditioned through extinction be extinguished at the same time?

<p>Yes, except for a slight delay in one process.</p> Signup and view all the answers

Are the extinction curves recorded separately displaced in time?

<p>Yes, slightly displaced in time but the major oscillations occur simultaneously.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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