Reinforcement and Its Educational Implications

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This paper focused on the nature and concept of reinforcement and its educational implications. Reinforcement is the process of increasing or stamping in desirable behaviour of an individual through the mechanisms of positive, negative, primary or secondary reinforcers respectively. A reinforcer is the pleasurable stimulus that leads to an effect called reinforcement. Conditions or patterns of administering reinforcement are continuous schedule and partial (intermittent) schedule patterns. Partial schedule is sub-divided into
ratio and interval with each having fixed and variables schedules respectively. There are also interactions between the conditions of reinforcement. A list of educational implications of reinforcement were outlined. Reinforcement as a behaviour modification technique can be applied to a wide range of behaviour problems and can be used in every human setting but its monotonous application makes reinforcement to lose its values before the client.