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This describes a process of positive feedback, which predicts that the child will end up compulsively buying cookies at every opportunity. This is not what is generally observed.
ETA: I guess this might be what is going on in cases of OCD, except that the behaviours there, such as compulsive hand-washing, are generally not of a particularly gratifying kind. OCD does not seem to result from superstimuli.