Operant Conditioning for Dummies (Part I)

Negative reinforcement contingency (escape)

doing something to stop a "bad" thing that is already happening

Negative punishment contingency (penalty)

If you do something wrong, you lose a privilege you like, which makes you stop doing that thing

Positive reinforcer (reinforcer)**

a reward that makes you do something again

Positive reinforcement contingency (reinforcement)

if you perform a specific action, you get a reward, which makes you want to do that action more often

Negative reinforcer (aversive stimulus)

If doing a specific action makes a "bad" thing go away, you are more likely to do that action again

Punisher (aversive stimulus)

It is any result that follows an action and makes you less likely to do that action again

Positive punishment contingency (punishment)

adding a consequence to stop a behavior.

Behavioral contingency

It is the relationship between what happens before you act, what you actually do, and what happens next

Extinction

ignoring a behavior until it stops