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Reinforcement and Punishment

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  • 1. Multiple Choice
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    What is Reinforcement?

    Presenting or removal of a stimulus to decrease the likelihood that a behaviour would occur again

    Presenting or removal of a stimulus to increase the likelihood that a behaviour would occur again

    A condition in which a person has gone without a particular reinforcer for a period of time

    States a behaviour that produces a favourable effect on the environment will be more likely to be repeated in the future

  • 2. Multiple Choice
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    What is Punishment?

    Gradual removal of prompts

    The process in which a previously reinforced behaviour is no longer followed by reinforcing consequences, resulting in decrease of behaviour

    The process in which a behaviour is followed by a consequence that results in the decrease of the likelihood that behaviour would occur again

    Increases likelihood behaviour will occur in the future

  • 3. Multiple Choice
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    What is the difference between Positive and Negative Punishment?

    Positive Punishment is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus

    Positive Punishment is followed by the presentation of an aversive stimulus

    Negative Punishment is followed by the removal of an aversive stimulus

    Both involve result in behaviours less likely to occur in the future

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