Cognitive reinforcer

Cognitive reinforcer

Cognitive reinforcer the stimuli is rewarding when paired with another stimulus, which is reinforcing (Shrestha). The reinforcers are not entirely essential for the survival of the other stimuli, but they are essential for their success, for example, money, gifts, and accolades. The students are paired with the food, and therefore before the food or lunch hour, they have to finish the work assigned. They always work with perfection for them not to be late for lunch and be released by their teacher for lunch break early. The lunch break or food reward and completion of the work assigned are the contingencies responsible for the increased productivity and accuracy in the students before the lunch bell.

A conditioned aversive stimulus can help to change behavior positively or negatively through learned aversive stimulus when paired with reinforcement. Aversive stimulus happens when a hostile event will decrease the probability of the behavior once given as the outcome. Negative reinforcement occurs when aversive stimuli are removed and may increase the likelihood of a behavior happening (Pritchard, Chong). A learned aversive stimulus is a situation where a stimulus becomes aversive after being paired with another aversive stimulus (study blue). A scenario for a learned aversive stimulus is a situation where a person before heading to the beach has to apply sunscreen to avoid any sunburns. The person has to be paired with a learned aversive stimulus, which is the sunscreen, which helps the person escape sunburns. This aversive stimulus is a negative reinforcement or something to be escaped as the behavior of getting sunburns is removed by applying sunscreen.

Neutral stimulus +             Aversive Stimulus             =      Conditioned Aversive Stimulus

Reference

Pritchard, josh, and ivy, Chong.Aversive Stimulus.Encyclopedia of Child Behaviour and Development. Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 2011. link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-0-387-79061-9_265#howtocite

Shrestha, Praveen.Conditioned Reinforcer.Psychestudy. 17 November 2017.www.psychestudy.com/behavioral/learning-memory/operant-conditioning/reinforcement-punishment/conditioned-reinforcer

Study blue. Learned reinforcer and learned aversive stimuli. Study blue Inc. 2018. www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/chapter-11-learned-reinforcer-and-learned-aversive-stimuli/deck/711733