Some aspects of oparent conditioning are:
- Positive reinforcement is when the teacher gives praise to receive more of the intended behaviour. An example would be that a student works quietly and gets his/her work finished in a timely manner. The teacher would reward this behaviour by giving the student a gold star which will motivate the student to display this behaviour more often.
-Negative Reinforcement is when a teacher gives, for example a glare and then takes it away to reinforce the student to do less of the disruptive behaviour. A situation where this could be used is when a teacher gives a pre-test in the area of spelling and if the student gets 100% then they no longer have to do the final test on Friday. This reinforces the student to always work hard on their spelling in hopes they won't have to do that final test.
- Positive Punishment is when the teacher gives a punishment like detention this will make the student do less of the disruptive behaviour to avoid this punishment again. An example is when there is a student that is acting out in class by constantly interrupting the class so the teacher asks the student to take a time out. This should get the student to stop interrupting.
-Negative Punishment is when the teacher takes something away to get better behaviour out of the student. Keri is continually late for class so her teacher takes away twenty minutes of her lunch hour. Missing out on lunch will prevent Keri from being late again.