Negative Reinforcement and Punishment
Negative Reinforcement and Punishment
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负强化与惩罚
DOI:
10.1007/978-1-4899-1947-2_6
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
1.7
通讯作者:
J. Crosbie
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作者:
J. Crosbie
Although the use of negative reinforcement and punishment is sometimes contro versial and unpopular, an experimental analysis of those procedures is crucial if we are to achieve our goal of predicting, controlling, and interpreting the behav ior of organisms. Studying only positive consequences of behavior will reveal only half of the picture. Furthermore, negative reinforcement and punishment are par ticularly powerful, and constantly are present in the physical environment. In deed, it has been argued that positive reinforcement is really only negative rein forcement in disguise, because all behavior is based on escape and avoidance (Hull, 1943). It is unfortunate that the study of negative reinforcement and pun ishment is in decline (Baron, 1991), because its analysis is needed to increase the data base of our discipline, and the procedures can be used therapeutically to im prove the lives of many people (e.g., by reducing self-injurious behavior). One goal of the present chapter is to encourage more research on this topic with human sub jects. Given their theoretical history, and recent developments, it is appropriate that negative reinforcement and punishment should be considered together. Early pun ishment theories (e.g., Dinsmoor, 1954; Skinner, 1953; Thorndike, 1932) proposed that punishment reduces behavior only because organisms perform other behav iors that avoid the punisher. In other words, punishment is a secondary process based on avoidance. Later (Azrin & Holz, 1966) it was argued that punishment is a primary process that reduces behavior independently of avoidance. Currently, this is the most widely accepted theoretical position on punishment. There is, however, recent evidence that avoidance and punishment may be fundamentally related. In one study (Dunham, Mariner, & Adams, 1969); pigeons received food when they pecked a lighted key, then electric shock after each peck. Shock de creased the rate of pecking the key, and increased the rate of pecking the wall
影响因子:
2.7
作者:
William J. McIlvane;J. B. Kledaras;L. C. Munson;Katherine A. J. King;Julio C. de Rose;Lawrence T. Stoddard
通讯作者:
William J. McIlvane;J. B. Kledaras;L. C. Munson;Katherine A. J. King;Julio C. de Rose;Lawrence T. Stoddard
影响因子:
2.9
作者:
Linscheid,TR;Iwata,BA;Ricketts,RW;Williams,DE;Griffin,JC
通讯作者:
Griffin,JC