Does it Work?
The belief that punishment works is based on this and is often misleading.
What is an immediate effect to reduce the behavior?
The first effect of punishment. The behavior is likely suppressed in that moment, but it doesn't guarantee any future suppression of the behavior. It does not indicate typical stimulus control.
What is an immediate change to the situation?
This concept is likely responsible for the widespread use of punishment as this effect is likely to reinforcing to the person delivering punishment.
What is the immediate effect of reducing behavior?
One way to reduce the need for problem behavior is to allow time to pass in accordance with this related to chronological and/or developmental age of the learner.
What is the developmental schedule?
The most common technique to try to establish control over another's behavior in our modern life.
What is Punishment?
Thorndike's discoveries surrounding behavior with cats in puzzle boxes resulted in both the "stamping in" of behavior that was reinforced and also this converse phenomenon as a result of punishment.
What is the "stamping out" of behavior?
A second effect of punishment. Behavior that has been consistently punished becomes the source of conditioned stimuli that evoke this type of behavior.
What is incompatible behavior?
Though there is a temporary reduction in problem behavior the reduction of efficiency and overall happiness of the group or the individual is a trade-off that may not be desired.
What are some of the costs of punishment?
Another strategy that is likely to reduce problem behavior by using positive reinforcement on behaviors that interfere with the problem behavior occurring. This is actually a preferred method because there are little objectionable by-products when using positive reinforcement.
What is conditioning incompatible behavior?
Reinforcement is designed to increase behavior or build it up. This is what punishment is designed to do.
What is tear the behavior down OR reduce the behavior?
The effect of pairing punishment with extinction in the early phases of an extinction burst. One might think that it would result in a rapid decrease in behavior, but instead it results in this followed by a rise in the behavior after the punishment is removed.
What is the temporary suppression of behavior?
Emotional predispositions that are rearoused by the beginnings of severely punished behavior.
What are guilt and shame? (Or a sense of sin)
Not knowing when a behavior will be punished and when it won't be results in alternating responses of the punished behavior and a competing behavior. Ultimately this may strengthen the punished behavior over time.
What is a result of the intermittent schedule of punishment?
This alternative to using punishment relies simply upon removing the reinforcement previously available for the behavior. This results in a temporary increase in responding which then reduces significantly over time.
What is extinction?
What is True?
True or False: Punishment acts by subtracting responses the same as reinforcement acts by adding them.
False. Punishment is not the opposite of reinforcement. It does not remove responses. It only temporarily suppresses responding.
Behavior that is reinforced because it reduces the conditioned aversive stimulation that is the result of punishment.
What is any behavior or "doing something else" so that the aversive stimulus is not presented?
What are emotional responses?
This alternative weakens the operant because it allows access to the consequent condition without engaging in the operant. It floods the person with the consequence, thus making the operant unnecessary. An example might be providing attention to a learner on a heavy schedule so that the learner does not engage in problem behavior that was previously utilized to seek attention.
What is satiation?
The withdrawal of a positive reinforcer or the presentation of an aversive stimulus contingent upon the behavior of the organism.
What is the operational definition of punishment according to Skinner?
When this happens the rate of responding returns and over a period of time the rate of responses will reach the previous level prior to the implementation of the punishment procedure.
What is the result of the discontinuation of punishment?
What is intermittent?
What is reflexive behavior?
This is a slow process that involves manipulating the variables such that the response is avoided and then allowing time to pass without the response being occasioned.
What is forgetting?
True or false: Punishment is always socially mediated.
False. Punishment is not always socially mediated.