Unhealthy behavior is responsible for much human disease, and a common goal of
contemporary preventive medicine is therefore to encourage behavior change. However …

It is widely recognized that extinction (the procedure in which a Pavlovian conditioned
stimulus or an instrumental action is repeatedly presented without its reinforcer) weakens …

This book reviews how people and animals learn and how their behaviors are later changed
as a result of this learning. Nearly all of our behaviors are influenced by prior learning …

Resurgence is the return of a previously reinforced response as conditions worsen for an
alternative response, such as the introduction of extinction, reductions in reinforcement, or …

The behavioral‐momentum model of resurgence predicts reinforcer rates within a
resurgence preparation should have three effects on target behavior. First, higher reinforcer …

Three children who displayed destructive behavior maintained by negative reinforcement
received functional communication training (FCT). During FCT, the children were required to …

In resurgence, an operant behavior that has undergone extinction can return (“resurge”)
when a second operant that has replaced it itself undergoes extinction. The phenomenon …

Resurgence is the relapse of a previously reinforced and then extinguished target response
when extinguishing a more recently reinforced alternative response. We designed the …

Los tratamientos conductuales para la conducta problema en los que se emplea el
reforzamiento diferencial pueden resultar en recaídas debido a una variedad de …

In three experiments with rat subjects, we examined the effects of the discriminative effects of
reinforcers that were presented during or after operant extinction. Experiments 1 and 2 …