There are two types of Punishment, being positive and negative. Positive Punishment is by presenting a negative consequence right after an undesired behavior is given which further prevents this undesired behavior happening again. An example of Positive Punishment would be running late to work causing you to speed in your car resulting in a police officer pulling you over and giving you a ticket. Negative Punishment occurs whenever a desired item is taken away after an undesired behavior occurs in order to decrease the undesired behavior from happening again. An example of Negative Punishment would be staying out past the curfew that your parents gave you, resulting in your parents grounding you for the next two weeks. These two types of Punishment both similarities and differences, but the major purpose of the two is to decrease the rate of an undesired
There are two types of Punishment, being positive and negative. Positive Punishment is by presenting a negative consequence right after an undesired behavior is given which further prevents this undesired behavior happening again. An example of Positive Punishment would be running late to work causing you to speed in your car resulting in a police officer pulling you over and giving you a ticket. Negative Punishment occurs whenever a desired item is taken away after an undesired behavior occurs in order to decrease the undesired behavior from happening again. An example of Negative Punishment would be staying out past the curfew that your parents gave you, resulting in your parents grounding you for the next two weeks. These two types of Punishment both similarities and differences, but the major purpose of the two is to decrease the rate of an undesired