Term Papers on Reinforcers And Punishment

Term Paper Title	Reinforcers And Punishment
# of Words	464
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	1.86

Reinforcers and Punishment

Intro Psychology

Aaron Gates
5:40--7:05 Tu-Th

     Negative reinforcers and punishment both tend to be aversive stimuli.  However ,reinforcer  increase the frequency of behavior.  Punishment decrease or surpress the frequency of behavior.  Negative reinforce increase the frequency of behavior when they are removed.  Punishmentdecrease or surpress the frequency of behavior when they are applied.

     Punishment in my opionon can help to dicipline children, but to much punishment can cause children to rebal agint the punisher.  A child that is spanked for screaming in a store would not be a good example of punishment. In a case like that a negative reinforcer is more sutable for the situation. A child that throws a plate at another sibling is a  situation were a punishment would be more suited.

     Punishment needs to have  an  age limit. If a child has not learnd what is wrong and right by the time they are in highschool;they probley want to learn what is right and wrong anyway. If you try to dicapline a 17 year old they might laugh and do what you say not to just beacause you tell them not to do it.

     Punishment  can also affect the punisher.  Sometime the punishment they hand out at the time may be felt as sutable to them right then,but later in the day they will feel remorse for what they did.  It...

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