Your friend tells you that "negative reinforcement is a type of punishment.". Explain why your friend is VERY WRONG about these concepts by giving the definition and an example of each concept
What will be an ideal response?
Answer will include the definition differences in these two concepts with examples varying. Negative reinforcement is reinforcement, that is, it increases behavior, while punishment decreases behavior. Negative reinforcement occurs when making a response removes an unpleasant event, while punishment decreases the likelihood that a response will occur by an aversive consequence being added or a positive state of affairs being removed (response cost). For example, if you have a headache, you take an aspirin to remove the "bad" situation. The next time you are in this bad situation, you take an aspirin. Taking aspirin has been increased through negative reinforcement, the removal of an unpleasant situation (a headache). If you were to take medicine and the medicine made you violently ill
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Describe flashbulb memories and discuss the evidence surrounding their accuracy
What will be an ideal response?
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a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Cattell agreed to employ Witmer at the University of Pennsylvania if he would ____.?
a. ?study with Freud b. ?study with James at Harvard c. ?earn his Ph.D. with Hall at Clark d. ?earn his Ph.D. at Columbia e. ?earn his Ph.D. with Wundt at Leipzig