AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Have your kids ever cleaned their room, just to avoid your nagging? This is a perfect example of negative reinforcement. Negative reinforcement occurs when something unpleasant or uncomfortable is removed or taken away in order to increase the likelihood of the desired behavior.

Detailed explanation-2: -Negative reinforcement implies removal of a stimulus that followed the target behavior. Thus, if Jimmy does not clean his room or does in an improper way, he will lose some of the benefits. For example, he will not be allowed to go to a game or spend some times with his friends.

Detailed explanation-3: -At dinner time, a child pouts and refuses to eat her vegetables for dinner. Her parents quickly take the offending veggies away. Since the behavior (pouting) led to the removal of the aversive stimulus (the veggies), this is an example of negative reinforcement.