A student corrects the skill movement to avoid the teacher's frustration. This illustrates which concept?

A student corrects the skill movement to avoid the teacher's frustration. This illustrates which concept?

• A. Positive reinforcement
• B. Punishment
• C. Modeling
• D. Negative reinforcement

Answer: (D)

Negative reinforcement is about removing an unpleasant condition to reinforce a behavior. In this scenario, the student corrects the skill movement to stop the teacher’s frustration. Because the undesired emotional response goes away when the correct movement is performed, the student is likelier to repeat that movement in the future to avoid the negative feeling again. This differs from punishment, which would add an unpleasant consequence after a mistake, and from positive reinforcement, which would reward the correct behavior regardless of removing frustration. Modeling would involve copying someone else’s demonstrated technique rather than responding to the teacher’s frustration.

Negative reinforcement is about removing an unpleasant condition to reinforce a behavior. In this scenario, the student corrects the skill movement to stop the teacher’s frustration. Because the undesired emotional response goes away when the correct movement is performed, the student is likelier to repeat that movement in the future to avoid the negative feeling again. This differs from punishment, which would add an unpleasant consequence after a mistake, and from positive reinforcement, which would reward the correct behavior regardless of removing frustration. Modeling would involve copying someone else’s demonstrated technique rather than responding to the teacher’s frustration.