As a student, I have always felt that I work best under pressure. Naturally that means that hitherto I have never taken homework home in my life. I have always just delegated time to do it on the bus, in class -- even the period it was to be due. Luckily I have never had to face the music or receive comeuppance of any kind for this -- whether it be a bad grade or having to turn in the assignment late -- and I think that fact has made me more brazen about my keeping work and home separate. In my own opinion, receiving that comeuppance is not a possibility, but an eventuality, so to condition myself to do my homework -- at home -- was the perfect choice.
Going into the project, I felt that a system of positive reinforcement and negative punishment
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I have found myself bringing home homework with the intention of doing it, and then I remembered that no, I don’t really have to do that anymore and also that yes, I do want to play battlefield. From that observation it seems logical that only the threat of punishment keeps me doing the responsible thing. During the actual trial, I was very diligent; I only broke twice and following that I administered the punishment. Given the breaks in time between the two events, five days, I can deduce that the punishment being being fresh in my mind worked to dissuade me from not doing my homework and that as time went on the threat of punishment, the reinforcement, became less real in my head -- extinction. A side effect that I did notice and accurately predict beforehand was doing my homework in school -- before its due date -- to avoid having to bring it home. I observed that happen twice as intended, but I am sure that there were other times where I finished one assignment during school, but still had another left to bring home. In all, my behavior modification was only effective during the trial and as soon as the punishment element was removed, the house of conditioning collapsed in on …show more content…
In terms of legitimate behavior modification, I would make few changes. First, and most importantly I would make it a condition that I can only access the reward following the behavior -- with my current plan withstanding, I could theoretically play battlefield after my phone was taken away, which defeats the purpose. I wouldn’t mind being without my phone so long as I could play Battlefield. Second, I think that if the trial was to take place over a longer period of time, then I think the effects would benefit me in the long term more
The first systematic study regarding operant conditioning was taken place in the 1800’s by the Psychologist, Thorndike. Thorndike formally defined operant conditioning as a type of learning that is controlled by the consequences of an organism’s behavior. However according to lecture, operant conditioning can be simply thought as performing an action in order to receive a reward. Operant conditioning can be useful when trying to deal with procrastination, increase efficacy of teaching, or to improve motivation. Therefore, operant conditioning can be used as a behavioral modification program to devise a more specific weight loss program to increase the roommate’s chances of making it on the football team. The program will include the following
I know that if I just get through that 45 minutes I can happily leave the gym and return to my Netflix addiction. This is an example of a continuous learning schedule. This means that the reinforcement (an episode of Shameless) comes after every instance of the behavior (45 minutes at the gym daily). Every single day when I leave the gym, I know that right when I get home, I get to pull out my laptop and watch an episode of Shameless. It is good to use this schedule especially when learning a new behavior because the more frequent the reinforcement, the more frequent the behavior.
In Psychology there are many different learning styles. One of the more famous learning styles is operant conditioning. In operant conditioning there are two major concepts; reinforcement and punishment. By using these two concepts, behaviors can be encouraged or reduce a certain behavior. Next would be the different schedules of reinforcement that effect how often a behavior is likely to continue. Lastly the article goes on to state how behaviors can be shaped using these and other various methods.
...orce the good behaviour with rewards and decrease the likelihood of negative behaviour being repeated. The structured discipline of both parents and teachers help the child to appreciate that good behaviour is much more beneficial than bad behaviour but without this structure in one or both of these settings, could lead to the child not understanding, leading to it being much more difficult to correct behaviour that isn't wanted without resorting to drastic measures of physical or psychological punishment that would do more harm than good. Further research into helping the children in these sort of circumstances would be much more beneficial to the topic of child behaviour and punishment.
In second grade I was apart of a wild classroom. Their was a lot of chaos from all the young children. My teacher struggled to get everyone on task and to complete our work. After some time my teacher decided to make up a reward system (positive reinforcement). The children in the classroom were able to earn tickets for doing their homework, being respectful, and many other things. We were able to save these tickets and cash them in on fridays for treats, toys, or even sometimes extra recess. The teacher had a separate system for when we misbehaved. There were 3 colors you could earn everyday. If you weren’t on task, out of your seat, or just being disruptive she would change your color from green to yellow. If it happened again you got a red card and lost your tickets you earned for that day. This is a perfect example of positive punishment. It gave each child an opportunity to earn tickets for good behavior, and a warning system with the cards that possibly would lead to losing your earned tickets. Our teacher was using operant conditioning to produce a change in our
In general, a consequence is called a reinforce if it strengthens the behavior that led to it, and it is a punisher if it weakens that behavior. The use of punishment has several negative side effects including the risk of causing serious physical harm, inducing fear or hostility (the child might develop a fear of all dogs after being bitten), and the failure to learn the correct response in the particular situation (Carlson & Buskist, 1997). A form of punishment to consider is removal of an important stimulus such as the removal of social media. Removing a teen from interactive activity is considered the punishment.
Operant conditioning is a process of reinforcing a response that is made by the stimulus and consequence; thus, it shapes an individual's behavior. If a response happens to go along with the stimulus, then this response is reinforced. Therefore, it will increase the chance that response would be reinforced in the future when the same stimulus is presence. Consequence can be broken down into punishment or reinforcement. A punishment would reduce the undesirable action; while reinforcement increases the desirable action. Positive reinforcement involves with a stimulus such as a reward or treats for good behavior. While, negative reinforcement is eliminated the negative stimulus after the desired response is shown. Positive punishment is when a positive stimulus is introduced after an undesirable behavior. Misbehavior children confined in the house would decrease unfavorable behavior.
Throughout the process of growing up, punishments and rewards clearly mark what we should and should not do. Whether it is being sent to time out for pushing a classmate or earning an allowance for cleaning the dishes, we are programmed to know the difference between good and bad. When
...epeated pairing or exposure to consequence-based procedures such as extinction. That is, consistent exposure to extinction or other consequence-based interventions may establish high-p instructions as discriminative stimuli for compliance (Wilder, Allison, Nicholson, Abellon, & Saulnier, 2010). Lastly, while the studies presented established the effectiveness of positive reinforcement on noncompliance, it will be of interest to find out if there are conditions in which positive reinforcement contingencies are not as effective. For example, it may be less effective when given a more difficult or highly aversive tasks. In addition, most of the research conducted has used edible reinforcers, so future research should attempt to determine the effects of other positive reinforcers on escape-maintained problem behavior. Future research could examine these possibilities.
Magoon, Micheal A., and Thomas S. Critchfield. "CONCURRENT SCHEDULES OF POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT: DIFFERENTIAL-IMPACT AND DIFFERENTIAL-OUTCOMES HYPOTHESES." Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 90.1 (2008): 1-22. ProQuest Education Journals. Web. 3 Nov. 2013. .
...th mounds of work to be completed at home. It is unfair to expect students to pick up the slack for teachers who are not doing their jobs. Although homework can be used as a tool to reinforce, more often than not teachers are not using it this way, and in fact they are abusing this tool and it should be banned all together.
.... I feel that in most cases, once a student has been punished through negative reinforcement for doing wrong, the student will attempt to correct such behavior in the future to avoid punishment. In addition, positive reinforcement should be given for those students who are the majority and behave, as well as for the students who are occasional troublemakers because positive reinforcement helps show what is correct behavior in response to bad behavior.
Levine, A. (1999). What is negative reinforcement? Negative Reinforcement University. Retrieved on November 14, 2003 from http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/nru/index.html
In operant conditioning, there is an association between an individual’s behavior and its consequence. A consequence can either be reinforcement or punishment (233). Positive and negative reinforcements will increase the behavior. When an individual is reinforced, they will continue to repeat the behavior to receive the reinforcement again. Punishment, on the other hand, will decrease the behavior. If an individual is punished after a particular behavior, they will behave that way less often to avoid the punishment.
times it felt like just another burden to add to my homework load, but as I look back I realize that