Skip to main content

Sage Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > learning (psychology) > reinforcement (psychology) > graduated extinction
... > social science subjects > psychology > applied psychology > educational psychology > learning (psychology) > reinforcement (psychology) > graduated extinction
... > social science subjects > education > education studies > educational psychology > learning (psychology) > reinforcement (psychology) > graduated extinction
... > social science subjects > psychology > cognitive psychology > mental processes > learning (psychology) > reinforcement (psychology) > graduated extinction

Preferred term

graduated extinction  

Definition

  • Extinction is a term used to describe how a reinforced behavior becomes less frequent if reinforcement for that behavior is withdrawn. Eventually, if the behavior is not reinforced over a period of time, the behavior will cease. Extinction procedures are typically applied by removing a reinforcer in its entirety following a behavior (e.g., removing all attention from a tantrumming child). Graduated extinction is an application of the extinction principle that removes a reinforcer for a behavior in an incremental fashion or reduces the magnitude of reinforcement incrementally.

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/graduated_extinction

Download this concept:

RDF/XML TURTLE JSON-LD