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  2. Punishment (psychology) - Wikipedia

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    One major problem with a time delay between a behavior and a punishment is that other behaviors may present during that time delay. The subject may then associate the punishment given with the unintended behaviors, and thus suppressing those behaviors instead of the targeted behavior. Therefore, immediate punishment is more effective in ...

  3. Bobo doll experiment - Wikipedia

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    The most notable variation of the experiment measured the children's behavior after seeing the adult model rewarded, punished, or experience no consequence for physically abusing the Bobo doll. [2] The social learning theory proposes that people learn largely through observation, imitation, and modelling.

  4. Reinforcement - Wikipedia

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    [10]: 252 The main difference is that reinforcement always increases the likelihood of a behavior (e.g., channel surfing while bored temporarily alleviated boredom; therefore, there will be more channel surfing while bored), whereas punishment decreases it (e.g., hangovers are an unpleasant stimulus, so people learn to avoid the behavior that ...

  5. Operant conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Immediacy: An immediate consequence is more effective than a delayed one. If one gives a dog a treat for sitting within five seconds, the dog will learn faster than if the treat is given after thirty seconds. [21] Contingency: To be most effective, reinforcement should occur consistently after responses and not at other times. Learning may be ...

  6. Milgram experiment - Wikipedia

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    Before conducting the experiment, Milgram polled fourteen Yale University senior-year psychology majors to predict the behavior of 100 hypothetical teachers. All of the poll respondents believed that only a very small fraction of teachers (the range was from zero to 3 out of 100, with an average of 1.2) would be prepared to inflict the maximum ...

  7. Time-out (parenting) - Wikipedia

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    All punishment procedures can evoke other problem behaviors, damage rapport, or evoke escape or avoidant behaviors. For this, and other ethical reasons, behavior analysts exhaust all options for using differential reinforcement and/or extinction procedures to reduce problem behavior, before considering the use of punishment procedures.

  8. Physical punishment of children ‘not effective and increases ...

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    The study followed children over time and analysed data on physical punishment and a range of different outcomes. Physical punishment of children ‘not effective and increases behaviour problems ...

  9. B. F. Skinner - Wikipedia

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    Skinner was convinced that, to learn, a student must engage in behavior, and not just passively receive information. [45]: 389 Skinner believed that effective teaching must be based on positive reinforcement which is, he argued, more effective at changing and establishing behavior than punishment.