Growing up I was told by my parents that I “enjoy” negative reinforcement. Stuff like you don’t learn unless we take away stuff from you or berate you to do something. But now that I’m older, it doesn’t seen like it matches the traditional definition and it was more negative punishment. Having the concept simplified would help a lot.
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*Reinforcement* is used to encourage desired behaviour; *punishment* discourages undesired behaviour. *Negative* methods remove a stimulus; *positive* methods add one. *Negative reinforcement*, then, would remove a noxious stimulus as a reward for desired behaviour; *negative punishment* would remove an enjoyed stimulus to discourage undesired behaviour.
Not sure this is how your parents are using it, but the distinction is usually that negative Reinforcement refers to an effort to pair some unwanted behavior with an unwanted stimuli to determine the behavior, while punishment is a generic term for penalizing someone for something they did.
So, for example, if every time I bite my nails I poke myself with a pin, I am trying to use negative Reinforcement to bite my nails less. If, when someone sees that I have been biting my nails they scream in my face and ground me, I am being punished for biting my nails.
There’s some overlap, of course, but it’s different in application and goal. Reinforcement is about behavior and usually instant and as minimal as possible to get the result you need. Punishment is often more maximal and based on some idea that a person can just stop doing things if the consequence is negative enough.
It’s also possible your parents meant “negative attention” which means doing bad things on purpose in order to provoke others and so get attention from them, even if that attention is negative.
Your parents were abusive holms. I’m sorry. It doesn’t make sense because abuse is always benal. The only thing your parents were teaching you was to stay away from them.
Positive reinforcement means giving the dog a treat when he does the right trick and negative reinforcement is when you shock the dog for not doing the right trick.
In this instance your parents were abusing you so you would act out thus justifying the initial abuse and entitling them to elicit further abuse in retaliation for your lashing out.
Punishment is about satisfying the emotional wounds of the offended. It is not rehabilitation nor restoration of the offended’s grievances and does nothing of value beyond it’s exclusive purpose, to extinguish the emotional distress of one individual by inflicting physical distress upon another.
Discipline is the imparting of values and when exercised within an equitable and logically sound system enables a mentor to use positive reinforcement to guide a pupel into developing and improving skills.
Indoctrination is the imparting of information and uses negative reinforcement to extinguish old behaviors and beliefs and replace them with new behaviors and information.
Positive reinforcement is when you give your sweetie a kiss or your teammate a high five. It builds social cohesion and solidifies connections between one another.
Negative reinforcement is when you yell at a loved one so they do what you want or beat someone up so they give you their money or treat you a certain way. It disolves social cohesiveness and separates people into small easily exploited groups.
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* Positive reinforcement is providing a reward when the trainee exhibits desired behavior. (A dog gets a treat for sitting)
* Positive punishment is providing an aversive stimulus when the trainee exhibits undesired behavior. (A child is spanked for misbehaving)
* Negative reinforcement is removing an aversive stimulus when the trainee exhibits desired behavior. (Your alarm turns off when you get up; nobody says the trainer and trainee can’t be the same person)
* Negative punishment is removing a reward when the trainee exhibits undesired behavior. (A child is sent to bed without dessert for misbehaving)
What you described appears to be a mixture of positive and negative punishment.
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