One approach to teaching negative reinforcement that helps my students 'get it' is using the example of how receiving NEGATIVE results from a medical test is a pay-off because you have avoided some type of health problem. That is negative results are good news telling you that you do not have strep throat or a cancerous tumor or whatever other disease or infection was being investigated.
I wonder to this day if the medical diagnosis of absence of a disease was possibly the context Skinner was considering when he developed the term, negative reinforcement. I mean, in what other context is the term negative very good news indeed. For whatever it's worth . . . . Joan [email protected] ____________________________________ >> YouTube is considering using negative reinforcement (but not giving >> credit to Skinner naturally) >> >> In an example of negative reinforcement that most students should be >> able to recognize: YouTube might remove ads if you pay a fee. So: >> >> If you do this: pay a fee >> Theyll do this: remove ads (take away a negative thing) >> >> http://recode.net/2014/10/27/susan-wojcicki-code-mobile-2014/ >> >> Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. >> [email protected] >> http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=39747 or send a blank email to leave-39747-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
