A mother has been continually nagging her daughter about how messy her room is. finally, the daughter gets so tired of her mom’s complaints that she cleans her room, thus stopping the nagging of her mother. given the fact that the withdrawal of the mother’s nagging served to strengthen the daughter’s room-cleaning behavior, the mother’s nagging would be considered a(n:
Reinforcements are important in operant conditioning, and we can distinguish positive from negative reinforcers. Positive reinforcers are those that motivate the subject to engage in a behaviour in order to obtain them. On the other hand, negative reinforcers are those that motivate a subject to engage a behaviour in order to avoid the reinforcers. In this example, the daughter cleaned the room because she wanted to avoid the mother's nagging, which makes it a negative reinforcer.
