{"id":182,"date":"2011-10-22T14:26:55","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/?p=182"},"modified":"2011-10-22T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T20:26:55","slug":"training-and-behavior-terms-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/training-and-behavior-terms-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Training and Behavior Terms &#8211; Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the second in this series of short articles about\u00a0training terminology. If you missed the first installment you can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/poa4s-2D\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of the definitions used in this series are taken from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0495095648\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=avianambassad-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=217145&amp;creative=399369&amp;creativeASIN=0495095648\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u201cLearning and Behavior\u201d by Paul Chance<\/a>. Anyone who is interested in getting\u00a0good solid information about behavior science should seriously consider\u00a0purchasing a copy of this book.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at one of the most emotive of all the\u00a0behavior science terms and one that is probably the most misunderstood and\u00a0sadly among the most common of strategies used for behavior change in our society.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Punishment<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The procedure of\u00a0 providing consequences for a behavior that reduce the strength of that\u00a0 behavior.<br \/>\nLearning and Behavior, Paul Chance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Once again, like reinforcement, punishment is a procedure\u00a0and not a tangible object or thing. It is the process of applying or removing a\u00a0stimulus immediately after a behavior <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> observing that behavior reduce\u00a0in strength or frequency in the future. What punishment is <strong><em>not<\/em><\/strong> is something the bird\u00a0deserved or \u201chad coming.\u201d There is no judgment involved in punishment from the\u00a0behavior perspective.<\/p>\n<p>I have seen it written that if behavior reduces then\u00a0punishment must be the procedure being used. This is not absolutely true and in\u00a0a future article we will discover other procedures that while they may reduce a\u00a0behavior they do not involve the use of punishment.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth noting here that using punishment is a strategy\u00a0that brings a number of unwanted side effects. These side effects not only\u00a0undermine the relationship between bird and caregiver they also may have\u00a0profound effects upon the bird and its future behavior. \u00a0In our <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/poa4s-K\">hierarchy of choices of strategies <\/a>for\u00a0behavior change punishment falls well below reinforcement.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy these short articles, if you have a term that\u00a0you find confusing or would simply like better defined and explained please\u00a0feel free to email me.<\/p>\n<div>Keep soaring,<br \/>\nSid.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the second in this series of short articles about\u00a0training terminology. If you missed the first installment you can find it here. All of the definitions used in this series are taken from\u00a0\u201cLearning and Behavior\u201d by Paul Chance. Anyone who is interested in getting\u00a0good solid information about behavior science should seriously consider\u00a0purchasing a copy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,4,41,35,42,16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aba","category-articles","category-behavior-science","category-coercion","category-definitions","category-punishment","category-sid-price"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avianambassadors.com\/BirdTraining\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}