Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

The problem here is defining the behavior being negatively reinforced. The terms positive and negative reinforcement are always defined in terms of a specific behavior. You would have to specify the behaviors (e.g., eating healthy food, exercising) that made the aversive outcome less likely. As

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

One approach to teaching negative reinforcement that helps my students 'get it' is using the example of how receiving NEGATIVE results from a medical test is a pay-off because you have avoided some type of health problem. That is negative results are good news telling you that you do not have stre

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

ctober 30, 2014 6:05 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example YouTube is considering using negative reinforcement (but not giving credit to Skinner naturally) In an example of negative reinforcement that most students should be able t

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

cement? > > Jim > > Jim Clark > Professor & Chair of Psychology > 204-786-9757 > 4L41A > > From: Michael Britt [mailto:mich...@thepsychfiles.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 6:05 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: [tips

RE: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

ical Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Negative Reinforcement Example YouTube is considering using negative reinforcement (but not giving credit to Skinner naturally) In an example of negative reinforcement that most students should be able to recognize: YouTube might remove ads if you pay a

[tips] Negative Reinforcement Example

YouTube is considering using negative reinforcement (but not giving credit to Skinner naturally) In an example of negative reinforcement that most students should be able to recognize: YouTube might remove ads if you pay a fee. So: If you do this: pay a fee They’ll do this: remove ads (take aw

[tips] Negative reinforcement = avoidance learning?

Dear all, for a class exercise I had asked students to seek examples of how animals can be trained with the use of operant conditioning principles to carry out some type of task for the benefit of humanity and a student came up with the example detailed below. For those of you teaching Learning,

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement

Having watched President Obama's remarks in their entirety, the statement below by Dr. Wuensch is, IMO, a terrible misinterpretation of his message. Obama was not intending in any way to use the phrase "negative reinforcement" as the jargon usage seen in psychology. He was speaking without a jar

RE: [tips] Negative Reinforcement

to students of something being well captured by common-sense but at the same time where it lacks precision. Jose De: Beth Benoit [mailto:beth.ben...@gmail.com] Enviada: sexta-feira, 19 de Julho de 2013 19:39 Para: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Assunto: Re: [tips] Negative

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement

Here's a Washington Post story with the quote near the end of the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/07/19/obama-on-trayvon-martin-historical-context-important/ Beth Benoit Granite State College Plymouth State University New Hampshire On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:36 PM,

Re: [tips] Negative Reinforcement

Could you explain a little more--maybe some details about how, where, why, and when? On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Wuensch, Karl L wrote: > > > > > > > ** ** > > Obama just incorrectly used the term "negative reinforcement." > > Cheers, > -- > > [image:

[tips] Negative Reinforcement

Obama just incorrectly used the term "negative reinforcement." Cheers, [East Carolina University] Karl L. Wuensch, Professor and ECU Scholar/Teacher, Dept. of Psychology East Carolina University, Greenville NC 27858-4353, USA, Earth

[tips] Re: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

Coordinator, University Honors Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 Sent from my U.S. Cellular Android device - Reply message - From: "Shearon, Tim" Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 8:27 pm Subject: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips To: "Teaching in the Psychol

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cks." Dorothy Parker From: Shearon, Tim [tshea...@collegeofidaho.edu] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 6:20 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips Michael That depends on which com

RE: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

ach an old dogma new tricks." Dorothy Parker From: Michael Britt [mich...@thepsychfiles.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 7:07 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips Okay here we go

Re: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

nt: Wednesday, March 21, 2012 9:07:48 AM Subject: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips Okay here we go - a topic we all know and have grown to hate, but what the heck - once more unto the breech dear friends... You know those apps or computer programs you can download "for

Re: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

At least a familiar example (more and more familiar as tIme goes by). I would amend my example to utilize some wordage suggested by Rick Froman (hope he doesn't mind) in which he suggested that it would be better to tell students that "X (buying the app) leads to the removal of Y (seeing ads) an

Re: [tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

Definitely! Good point -- would make a great classroom example. On Mar 21, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > Okay here we go - a topic we all know and have grown to hate, but what the > heck - once more unto the breech dear friends... > > You know those apps or computer programs you can

[tips] Negative reinforcement at your fingertips

Okay here we go - a topic we all know and have grown to hate, but what the heck - once more unto the breech dear friends... You know those apps or computer programs you can download "for free" but which contain advertising? I'm going to suggest that this is negative reinforcement at work: the