Positive And Negative Reinforcement In The Bates Family

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The Bates Family
Supernanny Jo Frost go to the Bates family to help Stuart and Sarah with their four kids. They have two boys Hayden 7 and Callum 5 and twin girls Orla and Erin 3. During Supernanny‘s visit she sees how the girls don’t get along and there are very little warnings and no consequences for their actions. In this episode you can see positive and negative reinforcement and punishment being used. Positive reinforcement is adding something valuable or desirable and negative reinforcement is avoiding something unpleasant. An example of positive reinforcement is when Sarah is with Orla and Erin and they are putting puzzles together Erin becomes frustrated and doesn’t want to cooperate but Sarah stays calm and diffuses the situation.

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