So, positive reinforcement means that a positive thing is added to uphold the behavior; negative reinforcement means that a negative thing is subtracted in order to uphold the behavior; positive punishment means that a bad thing is added in order to decrease the behavior; negative punishment is that a good thing is subtracted in order to decrease the behavior. Got it, thanks.
No, not really. Positive reinforcers do not have to be pleasant to be reinforcing. A teacher yelling at a kid contingent on talking may reinforce the behavior through access to attention (and likely escape from unpleasant tasks). Positive and negative exclusively refer to arthritic in behaviorism (adding and subtracting) though often in negative reinforcement an aversive is removed.
I think the first example of negative reinforcement is incorrect, because as you say the reinforcement occurs AFTER the behavior, and to stimulate the behavior to repeat, so the adolescent/kid cleaning his room is the desired behavior to reinforce, but in your example he is imagining his mom will nag so he decides to clean, he imagines that BEFORE cleaning, also nagging is adding something unpleasant, not removing something unpleasant, so if at all, it should be a positive punishment because it adds something to decrease the undesired behavior of having a dirty room, if it was a negative reinforcement it should take something away BUT to stimulate the desired behavior, i think in this case a more clear negative reinforcement could be, that after cleaning his room, his parents decide he doesn't have a curfew in the weekend to reinforce his cleaning.
My dog is really god at negative reinforcement, whenever he wants something he barks at us until he gets it. He acts kinda dumb or helpless, but I think he really knows we're do everything he wants if he barks at us enough. He's barked at us to carry him upstairs despite the fact he can walk up the stairs himself. He has perfected negative reinforcement so well, to the point where he can make us put him on a table or something even if he knows he'd need our help back down because he's so confident in his methods of barking at us that he doesn't just trust us to help him down when he wants down, he know's he can make us do it for him. So negative reinforcement is a simple yet effective power
+ reinforcement = whenever I clean the room ,mom gives me food. - reinforcement = if I don't clean the room , mom scold me , so I have to clean the room. +. Punishment = my boss remove the coffee machine from the canteen - ve punishment = use a shock collar on dog when it barks on people
For positive reinforcement: my parents assured to provide gift if i got good marks For negative reinforcement: parents always lamenting and threatening about my future to score good marks For positive punishment: My lecture gave me 1000 times imposition for late submission of assignment For negative punishment: lecture informs that i ll reduce ur internal marks for late submission of assignment.
The notion that punishment reduces behavior is a misconception. Punishment induced behavior which temporarily “take over” the organism, temporarily leaving the organism unable to engage in the punished behavior. Once the punishment stops, there is a recovery from punishment, and the punished behavior occurs at a higher rate than before punishment, before receding to the pre-punishment level.
The parents nagging example is actually punishment not reinforcement. Why? Because the nagging is reactionary. They don’t nag all the time even when your room is clean. You first have to make a messy room then the nagging is a punishment or shaming of the unwanted behavior. Reinforcement would be if there was an alar m that went off everyday until you took a picture of your clean room and sent it to your parents via text. Your room may have been clean the whole time but the alarm is going to come on regardless until you show proof of the room being clean. Unless your parents assume that your room is always messy and are set to nag on a daily basis it is a punishment for the times they choose to nag ass a reaction to the dirty room
