Reinforcement and others

A child who screams and cries for a toy in the checkout line of the grocery store, and who then gets that toy, is likely to scream and cry each time she wants a toy or other desired object

• Positive Reinforcement

• Shaping

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

A teacher who is praised for her accurate paperwork is likely to take care with documents in the future.

• Negative Reinforcement

• Positive Reinforcement

• Positive Punishment

• Negative Punishment

A student is disruptive during independent work. As a result, he is sent to the office, thus escaping the disliked task of independent work. He is likely to continue the disruptive behavior during independent work in the future.

• Negative Reinforcement

• Shaping

• Positive Reinforcement

• Punishment

When your cell phone displays the name of someone who talks incessantly, you may choose not to answer your phone. The reinforcing aspect of avoiding the call increases the likelihood that you will often ignore this person’s call in the future.

• Extinction

• Shaping

• Punishment

• Negative Reinforcement

The principal reprimanded a teacher who was habitually late to school. The teacher felt bad about the reprimand and after that, began arriving on time.

• Shaping

• Punishment

• Reinforcement

Your cell phone bill was extraordinarily high because you vastly exceeded your allotted data usage. The consequence of having to pay a lot of money results in you spending less time on apps that use cell data.

• Extinction

• Shaping

• Punishment

Ms. Tindal makes multiple attempts to initiate a collaborative lesson with Ms. Clark, but Ms. Clark always has an excuse for not accepting the offers. Ms. Tindal has stopped asking Ms. Clark to work with her on the project.

• Punishment

• Reinforcement

• Extinction

Mary used to make silly noises in class so that her friends laughed at her. Her friends soon got tired of the noises and stopped laughing. It didn’t take long for Mary to stop making the noises.

• Extinction

• Shaping

• Punishment

A student may behave well in your class but not in other classes. That student has learned that appropriate behavior is reinforced in your class, but not in other classes. In fact, he has learned that inappropriate behavior is reinforced (gets attention or gets him out of the class) in those other classes.

• Stimulus Control

• Shaping

• Reinforcement

Ms. Pruitt points out appropriate behavior in her students as a way to both positively reinforce the student exhibiting the behavior and to show the child’s behavior as a model for other children to imitate.

• Modeling

• Shaping

• Reinforcement

• Extinction