AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Negative punishment is when you take something away. An example of negative punishment is taking away your child’s favorite toy because they refuse to pick up after themselves. The goal of negative punishment is to get your child to pick up after themselves to avoid having toys taken away.

Detailed explanation-2: -Negative reinforcement increases the target behavior by taking away something aversive. Negative punishment decreases the target behavior by taking away something preferred. In the following example, a student’s “target behavior” is not paying attention to her teacher, or off-task behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -The following are some examples of negative punishment: A child yells out in class (behavior), loses a token for good behavior on his/her token board (reinforcing stimulus removed) that could have later be cashed in for a prize.