Occasional reinforced trials during extinction can slow the rate of rapid reacquisition

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Maximizing Exposure Therapy: An Inhibitory Learning Approach (2014, unknown): “As with animal studies (Bouton et al., 2004), we found that occasional reinforced extinction sustained fear arousal during extinction but attenuated the subsequent reacquisition of fear in a human conditioning study (Culver et al.”
Optimizing Exposure Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: An Inhibitory Learning and Inhibitory Regulation Approach (2015, background): “The benefits may derive from an expectancy violation effect in which the participant is less likely to expect the next CS presentation to predict the US because CS-US pairings have been associated with both further CS-US pairings and CS-no US pairings [Bouton et al., 2004].”
Context and behavioral processes in extinction. (2004, background): “Interestingly, the recent finding that occasional reinforced trials in extinction (partial reinforcement) can slow down the rate of reacquisition (Bouton et al. 2004) is really just the inverse of the PRE: In the PRE, nonreinforced trials in conditioning allow more generalization from conditioning…”