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Which of these is an example of punishment? a, dora is sent to her room without dessert because of her manners.
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B, steve has his mouth washed out for swearing.
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C, bobby is not allowed to buy cigarettes because he is too young, or d, all of the above.
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So, let's define punishment.
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Because in psychology, it means something quite specific.
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It's some kinds of outcome to decrease the frequency of a behaviour.
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So it decreases frequency of a behaviour.
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And there's two types of punishment that you need to know about.
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There's positive, and positive is the addition of something, so it's adding something unpleasant, and negative, which is removing something pleasant.
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So if the subject does something and something nice is taken, like dessert, that would be negative punishment.
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Because it reduces frequency of the behaviour to its punishment, and it's moving to its negative.
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Switch for b is a punishment.
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Well, we need a behaviour, and we need something that's going to decrease frequency...