Positive Reinforcement

Positive Reinforcement works because it gives children positive goals to work towards instead of only focusing on negative consequences to avoid.

The purpose of this action research project is to pursue methods to reduce the number of dorm infractions with a high school girl’s dormitory. The second objective for this action research project is to subconsciously motivate residents to pursue good behavior and actions without having to instruct them to do so. When all parties are operating on an equal level of respect and understanding, there is greater flexibility and therefore a better quality of life for all parties involved. If there is a relationship between the faculty and students that is based on trust and respect, as opposed to opposition and anger from being corrected for their actions, then the smaller dorm community will continue to prosper and be a desirable place to live where students and faculty strive to be the best possible version of themselves and a positive contributor to the greater society.

Assumptions About the Motives for Young Children’s Behaviors: Children behave the way they do because they want social reinforces such as acceptance, compliments, a pad on the back, rewards, encouragement, and praise. Children also behave the way they do because they will have time for free play, and get privileges by behaving well. When children notice positive reinforcements, the child will continue to display positive behavior and will be able to learn new behaviors. Additionally, children who tend to cause chaos in a classroom want attention from peers, or teachers. In this case, children should be taught positive behavior.

If I was to be hired as the principal of Marshall Metro High School, I would use four types of reinforcements positive, negative, extinction, and punishment reinforcement (Kinicki & Williams, 2013, p. 395-396). These reinforcements will give the students the correct behavior they need in order to achieve their goals of graduating and stop the negative behavior of being late or not showing up to class (Kinicki,2013, slide 23). Being that attendance is what I am working on, I want to make sure to handle it in an appropriate way. I could give out a pizza party to classrooms that have perfect attendance, but how is that really fair for the students who show up every day and there is that one who does not want to come? I need to work on each individual who has the worst attendance rate first by positive reinforcement.

Early treatment of eating disorders is extremely important in caring for the health of children and adolescents. There are many treatments currently available to treat a variety of eating disorders. Some that will be discussed include anti-depressant medication, hospitalization, individual psychotherapy, family therapy, classical and operant conditioning, and cognitive restructuring. The purpose of this paper is to explore different treatments for anorexia and food refusal in children, and determine which treatments are most effective.

A positive reinforcement I always use with my children. When it first came down to potty train was very hard. I was talking to other mothers about potty training. They told me every time they use the pot to give them a treat or take them to the dollar store to get a toy. When they just feel like they don’t want to go to the bathroom to spank them. So I told myself it wasn’t going to work at all. So about a week later I try it. It work some days but not all but if they did use it or didn’t I gave a reward or they got a spanking. I soon realize my oldest daughter feel like if I continue to buy pull ups she was going to continue to wear them. So I stop buying them and start buying her panties she went to the bathroom with no problem and till this

Children are often encouraged to try their best and work hard for their achievements when doing things like playing sports. Every parent wants their child to be the best and be recognized for doing a good job, especially if they are the best at it. But is giving out trophies to everyone essential in encouragement or should only the winners receive the gold? These two authors discuss when it is appropriate to give children trophies and when it is not.

A roommate is wanting to lose weight to increase his chances of joining the football team. If he were to ask me to help design a program of weight loss for him, I would need to shape him from ground zero on how he should behave for the rest of the weight loss process. The most efficient way of doing this would be to use positive reinforcements to improve his likelihood of working out more, thus losing weight. There are small doses of positive reinforcement that will increase his drive for working out and bigger rewards in the form of an incentive when he reaches his weight loss goal every week. With these stimulants of positive reinforcement, my roommate will hopefully reach his weight loss goal.

7). There a few courses of action we could take with this girl. Their philosophy of “treatment” would mostly stick to reinforcement. Probably using a mixture of negative and positive, which is what Skinner and his colleagues are most famous for thinking. They like to make sure what they qualify as good behaviors stay and bad ones get tossed out the window. The idea could mix a little with social learning theory. If she won’t raise her hand, then they might suggest using more positive reinforcement for children who raise their hands. Then this little girl will look at what those kids are getting and copy them. She will do this in hopes she will get that same reinforcement.

What I love the most about working or being around people is studying their behavior. In this week’s readings we learned about positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, punishment and extinction. All of these affect different behaviors differently whether they are in a personal or work environment. I will be explaining each term and describing how I have witnessed each one in my own personal life.

As the Principal of Marshall Metropolitan High I’d utilize all four types of reinforcement to motive students to attend school and achieve selected academic goals (Kinicki & Williams, 2013). Positive reinforcement would be the primary and most pervasive form of reinforcement I’d use to motivate students. To begin with, I’d transform the existing student incentive program by collaborating with students to gamify the incentive program (Knowledge @Wharton, 2014). Students would be awarded points for attendance, arriving on time, attending tutoring, test scores, achieving good grades, participating in extracurricular activities, and hours worked at an employer. Students would be able to redeem those points to purchase movie tickets, cell phones,

There are several things that come to mind when I think of what experiences would give a child a high motive for success. The first thing that comes to mind is actually one of the simplest. That is the use of reward or positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement is extremely versatile in its ability to be delivered. If a student does well and is told “good Job” that reinforces what they have done. The same reinforcement can be emphasized by simply changing the word to “Great Job” or “excellent work” for a superior performance. This reinforcement makes that student want to continue to produce quality work so that they continue to get the good feeling from the praise. If the quality of work is substandard, positive reinforcement is

In behavioral psychology, extinction refers to the procedures that occur when one is intending to discontinue previously reinforced behavior. The procedure is focused on reducing the frequency of that behavior so that it occurs less frequently, or stop it altogether (Henton & Iversen, 2012). In accomplishing behavior extinction in a rat, I would start with identifying the behavior that needs to be changed, which is referred to as target behavior. From there, I would implement negative reinforcement on the target behavior so as to obtain reinforcing outcomes. Application of negative reinforcement would be a way of getting the rat away from what it used to do or to make a behavior disappear. Negative reinforcement on behavior would make it ineffective

Elizabeth I agree in our text it's stating that "positive reinforcement consists of the presentation of a stimulus following a response, which then leads to an increase in the future strength of that response" (page 240) I like the example that you stated about being at the store and how they try to get you to purchase items by using the positive reinforcement method. When I use to work at Dollar Tree on the side of the register were there are different store items we labeled that area the "impulse buy" area we knew that customer would be inclined to purchase items based off of impulse and being conditioned to think you need these things and by having us let the customer know it's okay to treat themselves we are positively enforcing the purchase

Growing up I was a not a good speller. I hated English class and I hated the thought of our weekly Friday spelling tests, and my grades showed. I hated spelling as much as I loved Zebra Cakes and other candies. I would have straight A’s and a C for English, just from failing multiple spelling tests. After receiving my report card with the comment “Has failed 3 out of 5 spelling tests” my mom realized that when I was sent to my room to “study” I would do virtually everything except that. She knew that she had to find an initiative for me to want to learn and do well on my tests. She told me if I wrote every word 20 times and could spell them back to her I would get 3 starbursts. This intrigued me a lot and I soon got to studying. On that Friday after my mom started the positive reinforcement I got a 10/10 on my spelling test. When I brought the test home my mom had a box of zebra cakes waiting for me and said “This is what you get when you get 10/10’s on your spelling test!” I aced every test after.