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  2. Classical conditioning - Wikipedia

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    Classical conditioning differs from operant or instrumental conditioning: in classical conditioning, behaviors are modified through the association of stimuli as described above, whereas in operant conditioning behaviors are modified by the effect they produce (i.e., reward or punishment).

  3. Lawrence Kohlberg's stages of moral development - Wikipedia

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    An example of obedience and punishment driven morality would be a child refusing to do something because it is wrong and that the consequences could result in punishment.

  4. Reward system - Wikipedia

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    Definition. In neuroscience, the reward system is a collection of brain structures and neural pathways that are responsible for reward-related cognition, including associative learning (primarily classical conditioning and operant reinforcement), incentive salience (i.e., motivation and "wanting", desire, or craving for a reward), and ...

  5. Insufficient justification - Wikipedia

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    Insufficient justification is an effect studied in the discipline of social psychology. It states that people are more likely to engage in a behavior that contradicts the beliefs they hold personally when offered a smaller reward compared to a larger reward. [1] The larger reward minimizes the cognitive dissonance generated by acting in ...

  6. Gray's biopsychological theory of personality - Wikipedia

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    Specifically, Gray's theory concentrated on understanding how reward or punishment related to anxiety and impulsivity measures. His research and further studies have found that reward and punishment are under the control of separate systems and as a result people can have different sensitivities to such rewarding or punishing stimuli. [14]

  7. Transactional leadership - Wikipedia

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    Transactional leadership is a leadership style that focuses on rewards and punishments for followers' performance. Learn more about its definition, examples, and advantages from Wikipedia.

  8. Pain and pleasure - Wikipedia

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    Psychology of pain and pleasure (reward-punishment system) One approach to evaluating the relationship between pain and pleasure is to consider these two systems as a reward-punishment based system. When pleasure is perceived, one associates it with reward. When pain is perceived, one associates with punishment.

  9. Punishment - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, punishment is the reduction of a behavior via application of an unpleasant stimulus (" positive punishment") or removal of a pleasant stimulus (" negative punishment"). Extra chores or spanking are examples of positive punishment, while removing an offending student's recess or play privileges are examples of negative punishment.