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A trainer wants to train a chicken to peck a key to obtain food. If she wants the chicken to learn this trick quickly and the behavior to be resistant to extinction, she should use ________ reinforcement until the response is mastered and then follow with a period of ________ reinforcement.

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continuous; partial

Step-by-step explanation:

Continuous reinforcement: This is one of the schedules of reinforcement that continuously affects a particular behavior. The continuous reinforcement schedule reinforces all correct responses every time. Any organism involved in a continuous reinforcement schedule is being reinforced every time the organism creates an operant response.

Partial reinforcement: This reinforcement schedule is being reinforced only at a specific ratio, or intervals of time but not every time as in the case of continuous reinforcement. Hence, the behavior of an organism is being reinforced only at a specific time. the partial reinforcement is resistant to extinction.

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