Educational Psychology / Unit 4 EDP 0315 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Four Quadrants
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The idea
Positive means adding and negative means removing: positive reinforcement adds something desired, negative reinforcement removes something aversive, positive punishment adds something aversive, negative punishment removes something desired.
In practice
Praise, a stopped seat-belt chime, a reprimand, a toy taken away.
Where people slip
Reinforcement always increases behavior and punishment always decreases it, whichever sign it carries.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- 0316Naming the Quadrant
- 0317Negative Reinforcement Is Not Punishment
- 0318Reinforcement Over Punishment
- 0319Drawbacks of Physical Punishment
- 0320Shaping
- 0329Time-Out
- 0337Consequence or Reinforcer?
- 0340A Reward Is Not a Reinforcer
- 0437Four Pillars, One Lesson
- 1232Operant Conditioning and the Four Quadrants
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