LEARNING
OPERANT CONDITIONING
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Question
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Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement both decrease the likelihood of a response occurring.
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Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement both increase the likelihood of a response occurring.
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Positive reinforcement increases the likelihood of a response occurring; negative reinforcement decreasesthe likelihood of a response occurring.
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Positive reinforcement delivers a pleasant consequence for a response; negative reinforcement delivers anunpleasant consequence for a response.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Which of the following is true of positive and negative reinforcers? a. Positive reinforcers decrease the rate of operant responding; negative reinforcers increase the rate of operant responding.
Detailed explanation-2: -In positive reinforcement, a pleasant consequence is added as a result of the behavior. In negative reinforcement, an unwanted or unpleasant consequence is removed as a result of the behavior.
Detailed explanation-3: -With both positive and negative reinforcement, the goal is to increase the behavior. The difference is that with negative reinforcement, the behavior results in taking something unpleasant away. With positive reinforcement, the behavior results in earning or attaining something desirable.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is positive and negative reinforcement. The 2 types of reinforcement are: Positive reinforcement – adding a factor to increase a behavior. Negative reinforcement – removing a factor to increase a behavior.