Understanding Skinner!!!

Personal experience


- In our personal opinion, punishments are more effective than reinforcements. For example, when you disobey my mom by doing something without her permission, I can either get a positive or a negative punishment. Whether she takes away the trust she had on you, or she forbids to go to a certain party. I can assure you, non of us want either of these things to happen to us. As the actual definition tells us, the chances that we disobey again are reduced so much after we experience the punishment. As we already now what could happen if we do a certain action, we are able to choose our way. That is the main essence of reinforcement’s and punishment’s influence on us. On the other hand, reinforcement also affects us, but we have come to the conclusion that teenagers are more vulnerable or predictable to respond towards a punishment than a reinforcement. But that does not mean they do not have a big effect on us. For example, one of the team members works very hard to get good grades because he will get the car he wants if he does, another member wants to get good grades to get her parent’s pride.