Question

When a parent admonishes his child for taking her shoes off at the hardware store, the parent's response is intended to discourage future norm violations. This response is called a:?

Answer 1

Answer:

This response is called a positive punishment.

Explanation:

This response is called a positive punishment. Positive punishment is part of the learning process that is called operant conditioning, which works through rewards and punishments towards behavior. Positive punishment occurs when a behavior is being discouraged by a negative outcome. In this case, the parent admonishes the child for taking her shoes in the store. The aim of the parent is for the child to learn from the punishment. On the other hand, there’s negative punishment. Negative punishment occurs when a behavior is being discouraged by the removal of a positive stimuli. For example, when an adult takes away a child’s toy in response of bad behavior.

Answer 2

This response is intended to modify the child's behavior and is classified to be under the principle of Operant Conditioning. Operant conditioning was conceptualized to modify behaviors through the use of the reward and punishment system. This type of conditioning believes that if a good behavior is rewarded, then the child will repeat his deed thus strengthening the behavior while a punishment should be given to a child for committing a wrong deed.  Since the child was punished for doing something wrong, he will not do it again eventually extinguishing and weakening the bad behavior.