Rather, he argued on practical and ethical grounds that behavior should not be reduced in this way because there are better alternatives (e.g., positive reinforcement)” (p. 194). Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of negative and positive punishment on clinical populations (Lerman & ...
In other words, operant conditioning entails positive and negative punishment techniques in which consequences modify human behavior. Punishment is disciplinary and usually entails taking away something a student likes or adding something a student does not like. Reinforcement involves some sort of reward...