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The addition of the reprimand decreases the nose picking behavior, at the dinner table, in the future. His mom yells at him in front of everyone.

Sammy picks his nose while sitting at the dinner table with his family.

Again, this could be following the presentation of a stimulus (positive punishment) or the removal of a stimulus (negative punishment). When talking about punishment, we are referring to a particular behavior decreasing in frequency, or how much it occurs. Let’s say that even after being given video game time, if Sammy’s behavior of finishing his homework did NOT increase, then this would not be considered reinforcement.

The removal of the broccoli increases the behavior of yelling and crying in the future.Ī very important note to keep in mind is that in both of these examples, the behavior INCREASED in the future. Now, every time he sees broccoli on his plate, he yells and cries. When he sees the broccoli, he starts to yell and cry, so his mom removes the broccoli from his plate. Sammy is given broccoli to eat with his dinner.The addition of video game time increases the behavior of finishing his homework every day after school. Sammy finishes his homework after school, so he can have 30 minutes of video game time.This could be following the presentation of a stimulus (positive reinforcement) or the removal of a stimulus (negative reinforcement). When we’re talking about reinforcement, we are referring to a particular behavior increasing in frequency, or how much it occurs.

With both of these terms, they can be further broken down into “ positive” and “ negative.” You might be thinking, “Wait, negative reinforcement and positive punishment…those sound pretty contradicting!” Well, let’s go into these terms in a little more detail and see how they really affect behaviors. In the field of ABA, you might see the words “reinforcement” and “punishment” being used quite a bit.