Importance of Reinforcement

Any type of reward or incentive you give your client that results in increasing the behavior you want your client to perform is a positive reinforcer

Positive reinforcement also referred to as reinforcement will occur when a response or behavior is followed by a stimulus that will encourage or increase the frequency of a behavior. Negative reinforcement also known as escape, it occurs when a behavior or a response is followed by the removal a stimulus and thus increases the frequency of occurrence of that behavior. Automatic reinforcement is an occurrence that is evident when a person’s behavior creates an outcome which is favorable without the influence of another

Operant conditioning is “learning resulting from the response an organism receives following a behavior” (Burger, 2014). An example that I see of this is when I see children throwing tantrums in a grocery store because they did not get what they wanted. The parents give the child what it wants, and the child is no longer throwing a tantrum. The example of the child is showing a negative reinforcement. The negative reinforcement is taking away something troublesome because of the behavior that is acceptable (Burger, 2014). Another example that I have witnessed beforehand was when a child misbehaves in class, the teacher gives the child a timeout. This type of punishment is positive. Positive punishment is used to decrease a behavior and is showing

This is called operant conditioning. Operant conditioning typically has both a reinforcer and punishment. A stimulus that increases the occurrence of a response is a reinforcer. As to presenting an unpleasant stimulus to decrease the occurrence is a punishment. An example of a negative reinforcement would be the car beeping to signal to fasten a seatbelt. Some of us are quicker than others to put on a seatbelt when first entering a car. If that car signals that you have not put on your seatbelt in a timely fashion, you may hear that annoying “ding ding” as a reminder. Until your seatbelt is fastened, the annoying noise will continue as a negative stimulus. Now, in the future if you’re ever in the car and you fasten your seatbelt immediately because you want to avoid the “ding ding”, you may just realize it’s just because you have been conditioned to do

Negative reinforcement is removing an unpleasant consequence when a behavior is exhibited in order to encourage said behavior. This was shown when

Operant conditioning comes with four types of consequences: positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. Positive and negative reinforcement has shown to increase associated behaviors while positive and negative punishment has shown to decrease associated behaviors. For example, positive reinforcement could be giving an autistic child candy when they are taught new things. Negative reinforcement could be placing a rat in a box to try and teach it to press the bar to release food but instead sends an electric shock. As for positive punishment, we could use the same rat and after repeated shocks he understand that when he presses the bar he will get shocked. For negative punishment, if the rat continues to press the bar his food will disappear. Non-associative learning changes the size of responses to a single stimulus rather than form a connection between stimuli. Non-associative learning is split into two subcategories: habituation and sensitization. Habituation lessens our reactions to repeated experiences while sensitization enlarges our reactions to a range of stimuli following exposure to one strong

After a behavior, an aversive stimulus may be removed entirely, reduced in intensity or its onset delayed. This is either intentional or unintentional reinforcement provided by another. Can be viewed as escape or avoidance.

There are two types of reinforcement; positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement strengthens the behavior through positive stimulus and includes a positive reinforcer, which causes the behavior to

Positive punishment is involves presenting an aversive stimulus after a behavior as occured. Where aversive is causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification. For example, during learning process in the class, Ishaan did not pay attention of what his teacher told in front of the class. Besides, he was unconsciously focused on a bird feeding it’s children outside the window. Then, Ishaan was asked by the teacher to go in front of class and get the punishment as a reminder for him for not repeat the same mistake again. This situation show that when response leads to the arrival of something aversive, and this response tends to be

Positive and negative reinforcement can be used in simple cases as well as the more challenging cases to modify a behavior. Human service workers and parents can use operant conditioning to change the way a child acts in the classroom. If a child continues to interrupt the classroom environment, negative reinforcement such as placing the child by his or herself instead of with friends can be used to deter the behavior. Likewise, if the desired behavior is acknowledged or rewarded, the good behavior will likely continue. This behavioral modification technique also can be used with someone looking to overcome substance abuse. The individual should have a stimulus that he or she can focus on to make the change. If one is trying to overcome substance abuse to gain custody of his or her children for example, positive reinforcement can be used when the individual reaches certain desirable goals. Negative reinforcement, such as losing the opportunity to see the children if there is a slip on recovery can give that person the incentive to quit the negative behavior and work toward bettering his or her life.

Time by time, Day by day each of this able to shows how our behaviour have increased or decreased in positive or in negative way. In the perspective of behavioural and cognitive theories there are three in important theories that can be seen in our everyday life. Firstly, Reinforcement is one of the behavioural and cognitive theories that are always important in our daily situation. Reinforcement is used to help increases the probability of a specific behaviour that would occur in the future by delivering a stimulus immediately after a response in shown. There are two reinforcement, which is positive and negative reinforcement. Positive reinforcement works by exhibiting a motivation or by reinforcing stimulus to the person after the desired behaviour is presented and likely to happen in the future. Example of positive reinforcement that can be seen in the past 24 hour in our everyday situation, by doing chores from washing the dishes to cooking dinner my mother praise me for helping her. Another example of positive reinforcement is when my father increases my privilege

An example of negative reinforcement would be You keep on yelling at john to clean his room until he does. The yelling should get him to clean his room so he doesn’t have to listen to it next time.

Immediate positive reinforcement of the tasks performed which can dramatically increase the chance that correct behavior will be repeated and become habits.

Reinforcement and Punishment are used in the classroom as well as many homes for small children. Reinforcement is the technique of inspiring or authorizing a pattern of behavior which may lead to a reward. Many children do what is right because of the positive reinforcements they may receive. In the learning environment, children look forward to reinforcement such as candy, snacks, as well as stickers or other fun activities. If positive reinforcement is used in children’s households, the children look to impress their parents. Punishment is considered to be the penalty due to a poor act or performance. Punishment is considered to be a harsh way of getting children to act properly in the classroom as well as at home. Punishment in certain households may be altered or restricted due to the way that their parents have been raised or their own specific method in raising their children. Most forms of punishment are violent and may also alter the way children function as they grow older. Reinforcement should be used in the classroom as well as in homes because of the way society is built. As children grow older, society expect adults to act a certain way or face the consequences as the result. Children that are not well disciplined tend to have a rougher path as they grow older and may find life to be more challenging because they do not know how to make exceptional decisions. Children should be introduced to reinforcement as a form of discipline in order in order to prepare

Operant conditioning focuses on a system of reinforcement and punishers where actions will have a consequence (Skinner, 2016). In operant conditioning, behaviour that is reinforced will be strengthened while behaviour that is not reinforced will weaken with time (Skinner, 2016). There are three types of operants. The neutral operants that will neither increase nor decrease the chances of repeating a behaviour (Skinner, 2016). The reinforcers will increase the chances of repeating a behaviour (Skinner, 2016). The punishers will decrease the chances of repeating a behaviour (Skinner, 2016). Positive reinforcement strengthens a behaviour as an individual gains rewards through it (Skinner, 2016). Negative reinforcement strengthens the behaviour by removing an unpleasant consequence