Operant Responses

There are four different types of operant responses; positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, and negative punishment. There are also, four schedules of partial reinforcement; fixed ratio, variable ratio, variable interval, and fixed interval.
“Positive reinforcement is the addition of a reward following a desired behavior with the purpose of increasing the likelihood the behavior will occur again.” Positive reinforcement is rewarding someone for something even if they should have been doing it in the first place. It would be as if a you gave a child a piece of candy for doing their homework. Negative reinforcement “occurs when something already present is removed (taken away) as a result of a person's behaviour. Basically, when a person's behaviour leads to the removal of …show more content…
If a person received a speeding ticket for speeding then they have understood what they have done is not okay and hopefully is less likely to happen again. Even spanking a child is positive punishment. Negative Punishment “happens when a certain desired stimulus/item is removed after a particular undesired behavior is exhibited, resulting in the behavior happening less often in the future.” Negative punishment happens when someone does some things that they should not have and they have something taken away to make them understand that they have lost whatever it may be because they should have not done whatever they have done. If a little kid was fitting with their friend and then gets their toy taken away from them or if a teenager was not home before curfew and the parents grounded them that would be negative