PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Nail Gun, Late Fee
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Punishment is a process hereby a consequence of a behaviour suppresses that behaviourm decreasing its frequency, duration or magnitude, conseuences that suppresses the behaviour is the punisher. Punishers are conditions or stimuli that the person finds aversive. Natural punishers= are consequences that decrease a behaviour, happen spontaneously as a normal part of everyday life and are not planned and given systematically to affect the behaviour (ex. Hitting your finger while hammering a nail gun) Programmed punishers= are consequences that are planned and used systematically with the goal of decreasing a behaviour (ex. Getting a speeding ticket and then driving slower in the future) Positive punishment is an aversive stimulus or condition that is added as a consequences of the behaviour (decrease target behaviour) Negative punishment is a stimulus or condition the person already has at the time the behaviour occurs is subtracted as a consequence of performing the behaviour (ex.
