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Solution

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SCENARIO

TYPE OF REINFORCEMENT

Not enough customers are enrolling in your department store’s reward program. So you offer a monthly $50 bonus to the employees who signs up the most customers

POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT

To encourage your employees to sign up customers in the department stores reward programme, you announce that whoever signs up the most customers this month will be exempt from cleaning duties for a week

NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT

Gary signed up a grand total of 0 customers in the department store’s reward program last month. He clearly isn’t trying at all , so you threaten to fire him if he doesn’t sign up at least one customer on his next shift

PUNISHMENT

Your efforts to enrol customers in your department store’s reward program are so successful that the store actually start losing money on it. You withdraw all of the incentives you have been using to encourage your employees to enroll more customers in the program

EXTINCTION

Please refer to below explanations on different types of reinforcement which will enable to understand applicability of different types of reinforcements :

Positive Reinforcement. The examples above describe what is referred to as positive reinforcement. Think of it as adding something in order to increase a response. For example, adding a treat will increase the response of sitting; adding praise will increase the chances of your child cleaning his or her room. The most common types of positive reinforcement or praise and rewards, and most of us have experienced this as both the giver and receiver.

Negative Reinforcement. Think of negative reinforcement as taking something negative away in order to increase a response. Imagine a teenager who is nagged by his mother to take out the garbage week after week. After complaining to his friends about the nagging, he finally one day performs the task and to his amazement, the nagging stops. The elimination of this negative stimulus is reinforcing and will likely increase the chances that he will take out the garbage next week.

Punishment. Punishment refers to adding something aversive in order to decrease a behavior. The most common example of this is disciplining (e.g. spanking) a child for misbehaving. The reason we do this is because the child begins to associate being punished with the negative behavior. The punishment is not liked and therefore to avoid it, he or she will stop behaving in that manner.

Extinction. When you remove something in order to decrease a behavior, this is called extinction. You are taking something away so that a response is decreased.

SCENARIO	TYPE OF REINFORCEMENT
Not enough customers are enrolling in your department store’s reward program. So you offer a monthly $50 bonus to the employees who signs up the most customers	POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
To encourage your employees to sign up customers in the department stores reward programme, you announce that whoever signs up the most customers this month will be exempt from cleaning duties for a week	NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
Gary signed up a grand total of 0 customers in the department store’s reward program last month. He clearly isn’t trying at all , so you threaten to fire him if he doesn’t sign up at least one customer on his next shift	PUNISHMENT
Your efforts to enrol customers in your department store’s reward program are so successful that the store actually start losing money on it. You withdraw all of the incentives you have been using to encourage your employees to enroll more customers in the program	EXTINCTION