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Elements of Reinforcement Theory

  • Arrangement of the Reinforcement Contingencies
  • Positive Reinforcement
  • Strengthens behavior by providing a desirable consequence
  • Avoidance
  • Strengthens behavior by allowing escape from an undesirable consequence
  • Punishment
  • Weakens behavior by providing an undesirable consequence
  • Extinction
  • Weakens behavior by ignoring it