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Punishment
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Negative reinforcement and punishment are often confused but serve distinct functions in behavior modification. Reinforcement, whether positive or negative, increases the likelihood of a desired behavior, while punishment decreases it. Punishment can be positive or negative. Positive punishment involves adding an undesirable stimulus, such as scolding, to decrease a behavior. Negative punishment involves removing a desirable stimulus, such as taking away a favorite toy, to decrease behavior.
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A Procedure to Study Stress-Induced Relapse of Heroin Seeking after Punishment-Imposed Abstinence
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A procedure that demonstrates a robust acute food deprivation-induced relapse to heroin seeking after punishment-imposed abstinence is described. A punishment-imposed abstinence model was successfully implemented using the seek and take chain schedule for heroin self-administration. Heroin-seeking tests are then performed following 24 h of food-deprivation stress.
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Empathy
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Some researchers suggest that altruism operates on empathy. Empathy is the capacity to understand another person’s perspective, to feel what he or she feels. An empathetic person makes an emotional connection with others and feels compelled to help (Batson, 1991). Empathy can be expressed in several ways, including cognitive, affective, and motor. Empathy is often confused with pity and sympathy, which are different reactions to the situation of someone else or others. Pity is simply an...
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Decision-making and the Iowa Gambling Task
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Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Decision-making is an important component of human executive function, in which a choice about a course of action or cognition is made from many possibilities. Damage to the inferior parts of the frontal lobes can affect a person's ability to make good decisions. However, while decision-making deficits can have a large impact on one's life, these deficits can be difficult to quantify in the laboratory.
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Operant Learning of Drosophila at the Torque Meter
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Measuring the yaw torque of tethered Drosophila with the torque meter allows the neuroscientist exquisite control of the stimulus situation of the experimental animal. Together with the unique genetic tools available in the fruit fly, this paradigm is used for a wide variety of neurobiological research.
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Attention to both the model’s action and its consequence is essential because the observer must connect what happened with what produced it. Memory then preserves that action-outcome relationship for later behavior. If attention focuses only on the action, or the consequence is not retained, the observed event provides less basis for changing conduct.
Vicarious punishment changes behavior through an observed negative consequence, whereas direct punishment requires the individual to experience that consequence personally. Vicarious reinforcement represents the contrasting pattern in which observing a favorable outcome can support a behavior. These comparisons show how social learning can alter conduct without relying only on firsthand consequences.
Observing consequences can contribute to self-regulation by helping individuals adjust behavior before they experience the same negative outcome themselves. The process also provides a context for studying emotional responses to another person’s consequences. In psychology, examining these responses alongside behavioral change helps explain how social observation contributes to developing behavioral norms.
A useful analysis follows the sequence from observing the model and outcome, to retaining the action-consequence association, to evaluating later behavior. Researchers can then examine whether the observer becomes less likely to perform the modeled action. This framework separates attention, memory, and behavioral change while keeping the focus on observational learning.
Psychologists study this process in families, classrooms, workplaces, and media environments because each setting exposes people to models and consequences. The approach helps researchers examine how norms and self-regulation develop through observation. It can also clarify how people adjust conduct after witnessing outcomes affecting others, even when they are not directly involved.
The concept gives researchers a way to study whether observed negative consequences are followed by reduced willingness to perform similar actions. In aggression research, it can address how conduct is shaped by witnessed outcomes; in discipline and risk-avoidance research, it highlights learning from others’ experiences. Media environments provide another context for examining these patterns.