What instance do you believe that punishment or reinforcement would not be effective, if any? If you believe that punishment or reinforcement will always be effective in shaping behavior, state why.
Operant Conditioning : Behaviorist psychologist B.F.Skinner introduced this concept. In this concept he explained that by using punishment or reinforcement ( reward) we can shape behavior.
What instance do you believe that punishment or reinforcement would not be effective, if any?
For some typical persons the punishment or reinforcement won't work.Some charismatic leaders don't get excite about rewards and they don't fear about punishments. Those type of people don't care about problems, they just follow their conscience under any circumstances.
Example: Che guevara, Julian Assange ( a charismatic leaders) didn't fear about punishments and didn't think about rewards.
In those type of special cases punishment or reinforcement won't work.B.F.Skinner operant conditioning will fail at those type of special cases.
If you believe that punishment or reinforcement will always be effective in shaping behavior, state why?
Punishment or reinforcement shapes all people behavior except charismatic leaders behavior because people wants to be happy. They don't want to make their life sad with punishments and they want to make their life happy with rewards ( reinforcement). So punishments or reinforcements shaping people behavior.
What instance do you believe that punishment or reinforcement would not be effective, if any? If...
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