What Happens When Students Do Not Get the Reinforcement They

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Essay

What happens when students do not get the reinforcement they think they will get for behaving in a certain way? What happens when they expect to be punished for something but are not? Describe the effects that the nonoccurrence of expected reinforcement and expected punishment are likely to have on students' later behavior.

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