PSYB45H3 Chapter 18: CHAPTER 18.docx
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Positive punishment procedures and the ethics of punishment. In positive punishment you apply an aversive event so that you decrease the probability of behaviour, consider ethics and try everything else first. When alison coloured on the wall with crayons because her father didn"t take her to the park she was forced to clean up the mess she made and then some. A similar procedure was applied to simon"s bedwetting. In this procedure a problem behaviour was less likely to occur in the future after being made to engage in an aversive activity which is a low probability behaviour the person typically would not choose to engage in. People will often try to escape from performing the aversive activities, physical guidance may be used. Eventually the child should engage in the activity on command to avoid the physical guidance that previously followed the command.
