Clearly differentiate between reinforcement and punishment

What will be an ideal response?

Skinner's principle of reinforcement holds that organisms tend to repeat those responses that are followed by favorable consequences, or reinforcement. Skinner defined reinforcement as when an event following a response increases an organism's tendency to make that response. Punishment occurs when an event following a response weakens the tendency to make that response.

Psychology

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What was the major contribution made by William Masters and Virginia Johnson?

a. classifying sexual perversions b. describing the human sexual response cycle c. outlining the effects of childhood sexual abuse d. documenting the diversity of normal sexual behavior

Psychology

In a given culture, certain periods of its history are dominated by a general set of beliefs and attitudes known as a

A) zeitgeist. B) metaperspective. C) parsimony. D) gestalt.

Psychology