GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
REINFORCEMENT AND PUNISHMENT
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Positive reinforcement increases the future occurrence of the behavior while negative reinforcement reduces it.
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Positive reinforcement is used for skill acquisition while negative reinforcement is used for reducing challenging behavior.
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Positive reinforcement can be on variable schedule while negative reinforcement cannot.
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Positive reinforcement produces a stimulus that was absent prior to resounding while negative reinforcement terminates a stimulus that was present prior to responding.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The difference between the two involves the stimulus following a response. In negative reinforcement, you remove a stimulus whereas, in positive reinforcement, you provide a stimulus to increase behaviour.
Detailed explanation-2: -An example of positive reinforcement is: A child receives money for doing chores. Negative reinforcement is where instead of being rewarded with an item for making positive choices, and item or stimulus is removed after a specific behavior is shown.
Detailed explanation-3: -Positive reinforcement increases the target behavior by adding something preferred (good). Positive punishment decreases the target behavior by adding something aversive (bad). Negative reinforcement increases the target behavior by taking away something aversive.
Detailed explanation-4: -Positive reinforcement is a process that strengthens the likelihood of a particular response by adding a stimulus after the behavior is performed. Negative reinforcement also strengthens the likelihood of a particular response, but by removing an undesirable consequence.
Detailed explanation-5: -In positive reinforcement, a favourable stimulus is added, whereas, in negative reinforcement, an unfavourable stimulus is removed. Stimuli involved in positive reinforcement, have pleasant outcomes. Conversely, in negative reinforcement, the stimuli can have unpleasant or even painful outcomes.