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Ben's father, sean, is very authoritative.
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He puts ben in timeout, fighting, takes away his favourite toy if he stays up past his bedtime, etc.
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Tanya is friendly and supportive, takes him for ice cream if he does well, praises him when he goes to tennis practice, and so on.
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Are they using reinforcement or punishment? so, reinforcement and punishment.
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Both of these are concepts in operant conditioning.
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So in operant conditioning, there is a behaviour.
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That you want to reduce or perhaps encourage.
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And so you pair it with a reinforcement or a punishment to make that happen.
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Reinforcement is where you do something that increases the behavior.
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So for example, if you provide a reward that will increase the behavior that caused the reward.
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Punishment decreases the behavior.
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So here, sean is using punishment.
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Tanya is using reinforce...