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The Flaws Of Punishment As A Motivator
- It’s behavior suppressing powers usually disappears when the threat of punishment is removed.
- It often triggers a fight-or-flight response and renders us aggressive if escape is not an option.
- It inhibits the ability to learn new and better responses, often leading to responses such as escape, aggression, and learned helplessness
- Punishment also fails to show subjects what they must do and instead focuses on what not to do.
- It is often applied unequally as we are ruled by bias in our assessment of who deserves to be punished.
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The Psychology Of Behavior
In trying to change a behavior, reason will take you only so far, incentives must be taken into account as well.
In psychology, operant conditioning is a type of learning in which the strength of a behavior is modified by its consequences, such as reward or punishment. This is th...
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The Benefits Of Intermittent Reinforcement
- Rewarding the behavior immediately may take time away from the behavior’s continuation.
- It’s cheaper not to reward every instance of a desired behavior.
- By making the rewards unpredictable, you trigger excitement and thus get an increase in response witho...
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Motivational Alternatives To Punishment
- Stopping rewards to an undesirable behavior while rewarding desirable behaviors.
- Positively reinforcing a less preferred activity with a more preferred activities.
- Giving a prompt, a stimulus that encourages the desired behavior. Then reinforcing any app...
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Continuous Versus Intermittent Reinforcement
Studies on reinforcement revealed that the best way for us to learn complex behaviors is via continuous reinforcement, in which the desired behavior is rewarded every time it’s performed. Consistency and timing are the keys.
Nonetheless, some argue that intermittent reinforcement ...
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Scheduling Reinforcement
Scheduling the rewards on intermittent reinforcement can be used on various schedules, each with its own degree of effectiveness and situations to which it can be appropriately applied. Some of the schedules are:
- Fixed-ratio: used to reward based on the amount of work don...
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