Evaluating extinction, renewal, and resurgence of operant behavior in humans with Amazon Mechanical Turk

•Examined reinforcement and extinction using crowdsourcing across six experiments.•Adding response cost for all button presses facilitated extinction.•Demonstrated ABA renewal when changing background contexts across phases.•Demonstrated resurgence of a target when extinguishing alternative-button presses.•Crowdsourcing showed promise for examining reinforcement and extinction processes.