Rewards and Reinforcements

Duration: 26

Year Published: 1969

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Relates that economically underprivileged children must often be provided with motives for learning. Describes the frequent necessity of rewards such as candy, money, clothes, or other material objects because the values of these children differ from the values of economically satisfied children. Explains that the principle of reinforcement is based on operant conditioning theory and involves the application of immediate rewards to shape gradually more difficult tasks.


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