Response substitution occurs unreinforced responses go to extinction, while reinforced responses become stronger. Essentially operant conditioning is response contingent reinforcement . Extinction, spontaneous recovery, generalization and discrimination work the same way in operant conditioning as they do in classical, so they will not be covered again. In relation to human learning , first we generalize too much. Reinforcement has different effects depending on the schedule of reinforcement .
Partial reinforcement is slower to learn, but it takes longer to go to extinction.
Regardless of how many Rs give over minimum, only gets same S R at the end of interval. Typically has lower initial R rate but high R rate near the end of each interval. Although the experimenter may be using either VI or VR, to the subject it appears to be random. Although organism cannot predict when S R will come, expects it to come. Start with a classical conditioning example.