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Negative or Positive Reinforcements



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 Determine whether the following are examples of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, positive punishment, or negative punishment.  HINT: Does the response increase or decrease?  Is the consequence/stimulus added or removed?


1.  A person continues to go to work every day because they receive a paycheck each month.
Positive Reinforcement
2.  A child receives a bad grade and loses computer privileges.  He gets an A on his next exam.

Negative Punishment


3.  Singing a second song at karaoke after being praised for the first performance.
Positive Reinforcement

4.  Noise from the street is loud and bothersome so you close the window.
Negative Reinforcement

5.  A child pulls a cat’s tail and the cat bites the child on the hand.  The child does not pull the cat’s tail again.
Positive Punishment

6.  Katy hits her brother while they are arguing.  Katy’s mom yells at her daughter and Katy learns to not hit her brother.
Positive Punishment

7.  Tom hits very heavy traffic on his way to work one morning.  The next day he leaves his house an hour earlier and does not hit any traffic.  Tom therefore continues to leave his house at this earlier time from now on to avoid traffic.
Negative Reinforcement

8.  Sam talks back to his mother.  Sam’s mother tells her she is no longer allowed to go to the mall with her friends on Saturday.
Negative Punishment


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