What is the major difference between negative reinforcement and punishment?
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Punishments decrease the frequency of a behavior and negative reinforcements increase the frequency of a behavior.
2
Negative reinforcements are more effective than punishments but take longer to use.
3
Punishments are primarily used when training an organism to perform a behavior and negative reinforcements are used to train an organism to stop performing a behavior.
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Negative reinforcements are used in classical conditioning, and punishments are used inoperant conditioning.