Question

Gamblers often persist at gambling even when they very rarely receive a payoff. How can one explain this persistence? Group of answer choices Typically, the gambler will pause for a brief rest after each case of reinforcement, thereby increasing stamina. There is a gradual increase in performance with successive approximations. The gambler experiences learned helplessness and is unable to stop. There is a strong resistance to extinction when performance has been maintained with a variable schedule of reinforcement.

Answer 1

There is strong resistance to the extinction when performance has been maintained with a variable schedule of reinforcement

Explanation:

variable ratio schedule of reinforcement occurs when the response has been reinforced after several unpredictable responses. It creates a high rate of steadiness in the response in the schedule. Lottery and gambling are a good example of such type of reinforcement.

In an experiment when food is supplied to a rat after one break then after four breaks after one break, again and again, it is the variable-ratio schedules