• Negative Punishment
1. When a parent yells at a child for misbehaving, and the child stops misbehaving and becomes less likely to misbehave in the future, the child’s behavior (misbehaving) is being _________.
• Negative Reinforcement
2. When a parent yells at a child for misbehaving, and the child stops misbehaving and becomes less likely to misbehave in the future, thereby increasing the parent’s likelihood of yelling in the future, the parent’s behavior (yelling) is being _________.
• Positive Punishment
3. When a student procrastinates writing a paper until the night before it is due, but then receives an “A” on the paper, the student’s behavior (procrastination) is being _________.
• Positive Reinforcement
4. Suppose you want …show more content…
So if a punishment is unnecessary because the person/animal could be exploring other responses to certain punishments. Punishments are a good way to eliminate an undesired response. But if you want to shape or modify a response, reinforcing is a must faster and productive way of producing a modified response than simply using punishment as an alternate. Especially for using a punishment that is unnecessary because the effectiveness of that punisher might create for varied responses that might not decrease the desired response, but in fact increase the undesired response to happen in the …show more content…
Describe the Premack principle, and provide a novel example of the Premack Principle. (2 points)
• Premack Principle: a theory that opportunity to perform a highly repeated/common behavior can reinforce a less common/repeated behavior.
• Example: A young women loves to eat junk food and hates exercising. But the young women wants to change her behavior. Instead of eating junk food she will eat healthy all day and if she accomplishes that she can have a piece of chocolate for dessert. So she is changing her less frequent behaviors by rewarding herself with a piece of chocolate for dessert if she eats health for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
9. Provide a novel example of negative contrast effects in operant conditioning. Based on your understanding of negative contrast effects, provide an example of what you think positive contrast effects might look like. (2 points)
• Example of Negative Contrast: When children wake up on Christmas morning and they assume that there should be plenty of Christmas presents under the Christmas tree. But what if one Christmas children rush downstairs and only see two Christmas presents. The children re used to seeing many gifts under the tree and the children will most likely not respond well to only two presents under the Christmas tree. But if the children grew up with having two presents under the Christmas tree every year they would have a better response to if one year that had a bunch of Christmas presents under the
1. When a parent yells at a child for misbehaving, and the child stops misbehaving and becomes less likely to misbehave in the future, the child’s behavior (misbehaving) is being _________.
• Negative Reinforcement
2. When a parent yells at a child for misbehaving, and the child stops misbehaving and becomes less likely to misbehave in the future, thereby increasing the parent’s likelihood of yelling in the future, the parent’s behavior (yelling) is being _________.
• Positive Punishment
3. When a student procrastinates writing a paper until the night before it is due, but then receives an “A” on the paper, the student’s behavior (procrastination) is being _________.
• Positive Reinforcement
4. Suppose you want …show more content…
So if a punishment is unnecessary because the person/animal could be exploring other responses to certain punishments. Punishments are a good way to eliminate an undesired response. But if you want to shape or modify a response, reinforcing is a must faster and productive way of producing a modified response than simply using punishment as an alternate. Especially for using a punishment that is unnecessary because the effectiveness of that punisher might create for varied responses that might not decrease the desired response, but in fact increase the undesired response to happen in the …show more content…
Describe the Premack principle, and provide a novel example of the Premack Principle. (2 points)
• Premack Principle: a theory that opportunity to perform a highly repeated/common behavior can reinforce a less common/repeated behavior.
• Example: A young women loves to eat junk food and hates exercising. But the young women wants to change her behavior. Instead of eating junk food she will eat healthy all day and if she accomplishes that she can have a piece of chocolate for dessert. So she is changing her less frequent behaviors by rewarding herself with a piece of chocolate for dessert if she eats health for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
9. Provide a novel example of negative contrast effects in operant conditioning. Based on your understanding of negative contrast effects, provide an example of what you think positive contrast effects might look like. (2 points)
• Example of Negative Contrast: When children wake up on Christmas morning and they assume that there should be plenty of Christmas presents under the Christmas tree. But what if one Christmas children rush downstairs and only see two Christmas presents. The children re used to seeing many gifts under the tree and the children will most likely not respond well to only two presents under the Christmas tree. But if the children grew up with having two presents under the Christmas tree every year they would have a better response to if one year that had a bunch of Christmas presents under the