Positive Reinforcement is “catching” a kid doing something you want them to do and rewarding them for doing it. The child gets attention and rewarded as positive reinforcement for doing the right thing and will focus on repeating that behavior.
An example would be if you gave the class an assignment and the children got right to work on it, therefore the teacher would reward them by giving them all a sucker. Rewarding the kids for doing something they were asked to do.
Negative Reinforcement occurs when something unpleasurable is taken away as a reward to reinforce certain behaviour.
Example: When a teacher tells her students they will receive less homework if they all clean up their messes. This is taking away a negative thing to enforce a positive behaviour.
Positive Punishment Occurs when a negative consequence is applied in response to a bad or unwanted behaviour.
Example: Would be if a child is interrupting the class, or trying to take away attention that should be on the learning of the lesson, the teacher would give that child a time out in order to keep the classroom as it was without the disruption.
Negative Punishment Occurs when something that the child desires is taken away as a consequence of a certain unwanted behaviour.
Example: If a student in a class room was being disrespectful to the teacher, or disrupting the class, the teacher would simply give the child a time out or a “detention” per say for one of that child’s recesses. This would cause the child to learn from what he or she has done and hopefully ensures that it won’t happen again.
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