Andrea works in a home for adults with behavioral and mental disorders. There is a "marble system" that is used to reinforce and
punish the behavior of the residents. Green marbles are given for good behavior; red marbles are given for problem behavior and are associated with various consequences. The residents do not like to get red marbles. In this scenario, the red marbles are examples of _____.
Extrinsic punishers are used in behavioural management. Extrinsic punishers are reinforcements or methods that are used to make people who would not do what is right to do the right things as because they would get certain reward as consequences for their wrong behavior and not because it is the right thing to do.
Extrinsic punishers help to modify and correct the wrong behaviors in people. Extrinsic punishers also help to reinforce good and proper behavior in people.
Extrinsic punishers can also be called Secondary or generalized punishers.
In these question above the red marbles are extrinsic punishers because when people receive the red marbles they know it signifies that they have done something bad and it has consequences so they try next time to behave better and improve their behavior next time so that they can receive the green marbles instead of the read marbles.
