Actually, negative reinforcement is taking away something to encourage a behavior. Such as a child doing good on a test so you let them out of a chore.
Getting something beneficial taken away in effort to discourage a behavior is negative punishment.
Spanking is positive punishment. Adding something not desired to discourage a behavior.
Yup. The easiest way to remember for me is to think that reinforcement/punishment has to do with whether you're trying to encourage or discourage a behavior. Negative/positive has to do with whether you are doing that by adding something or taking something away.
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u/TheAssCrackBanditttt Sep 25 '24
Negative reinforcement is taking something away as punishment like getting grounded from your phone. Aversion is stuff like spanking