You want to teach your dog to fetch the remote control for your TV. Why should you first use continuous reinforcement and then switch to partial reinforcement?
What will be an ideal response?
You should first use continuous reinforcement since the reinforcement will occur when every instance of a designated response is reinforced. This will lead to faster acquisition of the remote control fetching behavior. However, continuously reinforced behaviors are subject to faster extinction when you stop giving the reinforcement. So in order to give the behavior greater resistance to extinction, you should gradually switch to intermittent, or partial, reinforcement (reinforcements only occur some of the time now) once the behavior is firmly established.
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