In situations when the presentation of reinforcement is controlled, such as during training, the timing of when a reinforcer is presented can be manipulated. During the early stages of learning, continuous reinforcement is often used. This schedule involves reinforcing a response each and every time it occurs.
Newcomb is either English or Welsh in origin and if your family arrived in the earliest batch of pre-revolutionary Newcombs they came from the English west country which can also mean Wales. If you need more information there are two books on the Newcombs. I have the one published in 1874.
First appearance of Maine's name. The name first appears in writing in 1622 as a province, in a charter of the Council of New England granting land to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Mason.The portion which came to be Capt. Mason's alone in 1629, he named New Hampshire.or further discussion about the origin of Maine's name: Chadbourne, Ava Harriet. Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns. Portland, ME: Bond Wheelwright, c1955. Clark, Charles E. Maine: a Bicentennial History. New York: Norton, c1977.