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Decreasing Problem Bx in The
Workplace/Punishers and
Penalties: Effects and Side
Effects
WEEK WEEK 12
Decreasing Problem Bx in The
Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects
and Side Effects
Punishers and Penalties
Managers, parents, or others who rely on punishment and
penalty may never realize how they are robbing themselves of
the pleasure of being a positive force in others' lives.
Punishers P
Any consequences that follows a bx that reduces the bx it followed
Penalty P
Engaging in the bx results in losing something.
Corporate term for negative punishment.
Why are punishment and penalty so popular?
Decreasing Problem Bx in The Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects and Side Effects 1
, When you use punishment, if its going to work, it will work right away. The
person punishing receives PIC for punishment.
Punishment is reinforcing to the one doing the punishing, not only cuz it
works but also cuz you don't have to deliver punishers and penalties as
often as delivering reinforcers.
Negative Effects of Punishment
Punishment creates Escape-Avoidance Behaviour
Punishment may decrease desired as well as undesired performance
Punishment increases aggression
Punishment is difficult to utilize effectively
Unwanted recovery
💡 Punishment does not solve a performance problem, it only puts you
in a position to take positive action.
💡 A mistake when administering punishment is much more serious than
one made while administering reinforcement.
💡 Counter control: Counter control refers to behavioral episodes
comprised of socially mediated aversive controlling conditions and
escape or avoidance responses that do not reinforce, and perhaps
even punish, controllers' responses.
Decreasing Problem Bxs
Extinction
Sometimes the most benign and appropriate way to solve a problem,
sometimes it is not.
Decreasing Problem Bx in The Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects and Side Effects 2
Decreasing Problem Bx in The
Workplace/Punishers and
Penalties: Effects and Side
Effects
WEEK WEEK 12
Decreasing Problem Bx in The
Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects
and Side Effects
Punishers and Penalties
Managers, parents, or others who rely on punishment and
penalty may never realize how they are robbing themselves of
the pleasure of being a positive force in others' lives.
Punishers P
Any consequences that follows a bx that reduces the bx it followed
Penalty P
Engaging in the bx results in losing something.
Corporate term for negative punishment.
Why are punishment and penalty so popular?
Decreasing Problem Bx in The Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects and Side Effects 1
, When you use punishment, if its going to work, it will work right away. The
person punishing receives PIC for punishment.
Punishment is reinforcing to the one doing the punishing, not only cuz it
works but also cuz you don't have to deliver punishers and penalties as
often as delivering reinforcers.
Negative Effects of Punishment
Punishment creates Escape-Avoidance Behaviour
Punishment may decrease desired as well as undesired performance
Punishment increases aggression
Punishment is difficult to utilize effectively
Unwanted recovery
💡 Punishment does not solve a performance problem, it only puts you
in a position to take positive action.
💡 A mistake when administering punishment is much more serious than
one made while administering reinforcement.
💡 Counter control: Counter control refers to behavioral episodes
comprised of socially mediated aversive controlling conditions and
escape or avoidance responses that do not reinforce, and perhaps
even punish, controllers' responses.
Decreasing Problem Bxs
Extinction
Sometimes the most benign and appropriate way to solve a problem,
sometimes it is not.
Decreasing Problem Bx in The Workplace/Punishers and Penalties: Effects and Side Effects 2
