Behaviorism and Determinism in Psychology

Primary punishment is biological, such as experiencing pain, while secondary punishment involves taking away privileges or other conditioned consequences.

Extinction occurs when a behavior stops because it is no longer being reinforced, not because it is inherently good or bad.

Positive consequences involve the recipient receiving something new, while negative consequences entail something being taken away.

<p>Continuous reinforcement occurs every time a behavior is rewarded, while intermittent reinforcement is given periodically, such as on a ratio or interval schedule.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A fixed ratio schedule reinforces a behavior exactly every certain number of times, while a variable ratio schedule does so inconsistently, but averages out to a certain number of times.</p> Signup and view all the answers