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.
Origin of the Name Rhode Island-Rhode Island was either named for the Isle of Rhodes (in the Mediterranean Sea) or for its red clay (the Dutch explorer Adriaen Block may have named it Rood Eylandt meaning Red Island, in Dutch). State Nickname-The Ocean State, Little Rhody. State Motto - Hope.