Operant Conditioning (Skinner)
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Under the theories of learning, in the context of a comparative analysis of Edward Thorndike's 'Connectionism', Ivan Pavlov's 'Classical Conditioning', and B.F. Skinner's 'Operant Conditioning', if a teacher in a classroom deprives a student of the play period for not completing homework, which leads to a decrease in the frequency of the student not completing homework in the future, under which of the following concepts will the scientific and substantive explanation of this process be made according to Skinner's framework of operant conditioning?
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In B.F. Skinner's theory of Operant Conditioning, concepts of reinforcement and punishment are given to control behavior. Here, upon the student's failure to complete homework, a desired and pleasant stimulus (the play period) is 'withdrawn' or taken away, resulting in a decrease in the frequency of the undesired behavior (not doing homework). According to Skinner, when the probability of a response decreases due to the withdrawal of a pleasant stimulus, it is called 'Negative Punishment' or Type II punishment.
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