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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

In chapter six in the General Psychology course, we learned about “Learning”. We learned the types of conditions that help people learn. One of the conditions is “Operant Conditioning” where learning is controlled by the organism’s behavior. During the lecture one thing that stood out to me was that in the operant condition, there is a term called positive punishment which is used to decrease bad behavior. It is used usually by parents to discipline their children when they misbehave in order to break that bad habit.

Positive reinforcement is utilized in the classroom by a teacher to strengthen a desired behavior and to increase its likelyhood to occur again. An example, would be giving out a candy bar everytime a student sits in their corresponding seat. A second example, of positive reinforcement in a classroom would be praising a student with a “good job” or “excellent” stamp after a student gets the correct answer to a problem. Positive reinforcement can not only strengthen good behavior amongst students but also cause extinction of dispruptive behaviors. Students will notice the postive behaviors reinforced by rewards while negative behaviors

Like many children his age, my nephew hates eating his vegetables and he cries whenever he has to eat them. Because of this, his mom takes the veggies away so that he doesn't have to eat them anymore. Due to this, he begins crying whenever vegetables are placed in front of him because he knows that it will make his mom take them away. This example is negative reinforcement because the behavior being altered the vegetables are being subtracted as he starts crying. This leads to him crying each time, so that the vegetables are taken away, being a successful type of operant conditioning.

Positive reinforcement is a very compelling and efficient tool to help form and change habits. Positive reinforcement works by imparting a motivating item to the individual after the preferred behavior is exhibited, making the behavior more likely to happen sooner than later. An instance of this tactic would be Jimmy getting $10 for each A he earned on his report card. The definition

An example of positive reinforcer that happened in my life was in third-grade elementary school. The third level class decided to start a reading competition for whoever reads the most books you will get rewarded with prizes. Whenever you finish a book, you take a test of questions regarding the book, and you pass to get points. Points can be used to get rewarded with prizes and at the end of the school year whoever get the most points will get a big trophy. The continuous reinforcement of students reading was a great success, and a majority of students in the class continued reading the following year with changes in productive behavior ("Module

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.

Reinforcement is used by parents, caregivers, and adults to show children the desired behavior. Positive Reinforcement avoids using punishment, yelling, degradation (Boyd & Bee, 2009). Reinforcement has been around for years and has been used around the world by generations of parents. It is a familiar term in modern society. There are many examples of research that support the positive effect reinforcement has on children.

Negative reinforcement is a fundamental principle of learning in applied behavior analysis (Cooper, Heron, & Heward, 2007).

Negative reinforcement is when something unpleasant occurs or happens and a change occurs to remove the unpleasant occurrence. A person is more likely to repeat the action or behavior again if the unpleasant act is removed as wished. An example would be to have your smoke detector battery is low it starts to beep. This is an unpleasant sound to we then go place a battery in the detector to make the detector silent which is now pleasant. Positive punishment is the act of giving a form of punishment due to undesirable behavior such as removing

Negative reinforcement involves removing something in order to increase a response, such as canceling a quiz if students turn in all of their homework for the week. By removing the aversive stimulus (the quiz), the teacher hopes to increase the occurrence of the desired behavior (completing all

The Consequences Reinforcement is a consequence that results in increasing or maintaining the future rate of the behavior it follows. Most behavior that takes place repeatedly is serving some useful function and producing some type of reinforcement. As educators, we want to increase appropriate behaviors. However, certain behavior that occur in the environment can change in several ways. A neutral event can happen thus if nothing happens that is significant, the consequence will likely have no effect on the behavior. The behavior can get better, if things get better, the behavior will likely occur again under similar conditions. This is called reinforcement. If behaviors get worse, the behavior will likely not occur again under similar conditions. This is called

Positive reinforcement is the presentation of a stimulus that increases the frequency of a behavior. Positive reinforcement is a tool that has been used for decades with countless affirmative results. However, it is not the perfect solution, as Perone (2003) mentions. This is an article written to question the adverse effects of positive reinforcement through suggested evidence supported by previously written literature articles. The authors use the term aversive in conjunction with behavioral control that studies have previously shown.

For example, let’s say that you are having some issues with your puppy’s behavior. Every time you let him outside in the yard, he digs holes underneath the fence and escapes. Your goal is to keep him in your yard and teach him to quit digging holes. He is just a few weeks old so you are hoping you can quit his bad behavior before it becomes a permanent habit. You start off using negative punishment by tying him up to a leash outside every time he gets out of the fence. This is negative punishment because you are looking to decrease his behavior by taking away his freedom of roaming around and being loose in the yard. You then use positive reinforcement by giving him a treat every time he stays inside the fence and does not dig any holes. You are using positive reinforcement because you are adding a stimulus, the treat, hoping he will increase his good behavior. To be more specific this is a primary reinforcer, which is a reinforcer that is innately satisfying and it does not take any learning to make it pleasurable (King, 2014). Common primary reinforcers include food and water (King,

Operant Conditioning deals with operants – an individual’s response following a voluntary behaviour that is influenced by the surrounding environment. Skinner aimed to identify the processes which made certain operant behaviours more or less likely to occur, believing that the best way to understand behaviour is to look at the causes of an action and its consequences. Operant Conditioning was developed from this, referring to learning that occurs through experiencing, or avoiding, pleasant or punishing consequences corresponding to the behaviour