As these positive
reinforcement examples show, you can encourage these behaviors through praising the process rather than the outcome, being specific in your reinforcement and offering it right when the situation occurs.
Not exact matches
An
example of a messier
reinforcement learning problem is perhaps trying to use it in what search results should I
show.
The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an
example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further
examples.7 This work is important because it
shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external
reinforcement.
As these positive
reinforcement examples will
show, and as Dr. Nadja Reilly, a clinical psychologist and the associate director of the Freedman Center for Child and Family Development, explains, it can also be a great tool for communicating to your child the actions or values that you feel are important.
Previous research, for
example, has
shown that a majority of never - smokers given a cigarette or dose of nicotine not only report disliking the effects, but later, when offered a nicotine - containing pill, gum or candy, or a placebo — a classic test of the «
reinforcement» abilities of an addictive drug — they chose the placebo.
The New Art of Teaching and Training» by Karen Pryor Pryor clearly explains the underlying principles of behavioral training and uses numerous
examples to
show how to achieve your training objectives through positive
reinforcement.
For
example, in a study which was published in the Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research, it was
shown that dogs which were trained with only positive
reinforcement did far better and displayed fewer behavior problems than those using punitive methods (13).