For this assignment, complete the following using the Reinforcement and Punishment Template [DOCX]. Please try to provide examples of the impact of the environment on your behavior through naturally occurring reinforcement and punishment and the natural occurrence of extinction.
Reinforcement
Provide one detailed example of how positive reinforcement works to increase or maintain a behavior’s occurrence in your own life.
Provide one detailed example of how negative reinforcement works to increase or maintain a behavior’s occurrence in your own life.
Punishment
Provide one detailed example of how positive punishment works to decrease a behavior’s occurrence in your own life.
Provide one detailed example of how negative punishment works to decrease a behavior’s occurrence in your own life.
Extinction
Provide one detailed example of how a behavior in your own life was reduced through extinction.
For all your examples:
Be sure to label the three-term contingency.
Be sure to explain why the examples you chose work to increase or decrease the behavior.
