Reinforcement as rooted from behavioral learning theories.

6. POSITIVE
REINFORCEMENT
NEGATIVE
REINFORCEMENT

7. - Anything that increase the
behavior
- is a consequence of upleasant
behavior that decreases the
likelihood of repetition.

15. Teaches new behaviors
Increases or decreases the frequency
with which previously learned behaviors are
carried out
Can encourage previously forbidden
behavior
Can increase or decrease similar
behaviors.

16. • Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental
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The University of Minnesota.
www.cehd.umn.edu/ceed/publications/tipsheets/preschoolbehaviorti
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