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Compare and Contrast Negative Reinforcement and Positive Reinforcement

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Compare and contrast negative reinforcement and positive reinforcement. Give examples of each to illustrate. Is negative reinforcement the same as positive punishment? Explain why or why not.


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Defense Mechanism

Psychological strategies brought into play by the unconscious mind to manipulate, deny, or distort reality in order to defend against feelings of anxiety and unacceptable impulses and to maintain one's self-schema.

Freudian Theory

A set of psychoanalytic theories developed by Sigmund Freud, which emphasize the importance of unconscious processes and childhood experiences in shaping personality and behavior.

Defense Mechanisms

Strategies the ego uses to disguise or transform unconscious wishes.

Ego

Within the framework of psychoanalytic theory, it's the component of one's personality that acts as an intermediary among the desires of the id, the superego, and the exigencies of reality.

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