Talk:Punishment (psychology)

Mention Azrin and Holz ,1966?
This isn't my particular field of interest, but a student asked me something about positive vs. negative punishment that led me to read up on operant conditioning. According to Holth (2005), much of the widely accepted understanding of punishment (that it is symmetrical with reinforcement) is not from Skinner (1938 or 1953), but from Azrin and Holz (1966). The problem is that many sources (including some on WP), cite Skinner for operant conditioning, but then include concepts from Azrin and Holz.

As far as I can tell, this article is true to the Skinnerian definitions. Shouldn't there be mention of the contributions Azrin and Holz made? if nothing else, it would explain to people why what they see here may be different from what they learned in freshman psychology.

Holth, P. (2005). Two Definitions of Punishment. Behavior Analyst Today 6(1), 43-47.

Jmbrowne (talk) 05:48, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Punishment from a Cognitive perspective
There's significantly more to modern psychological perspectives on punishment than as it pertains to operant conditioning. I'm not sure how (or whether) one might split this article or perhaps create another article to fit the need.

Hazzzzzz12 (talk) 02:43, 15 November 2012 (UTC)

The PTSS/ABA part is irrelevant to the article, and should be removed.
Within Kupferstein's study, the word 'punishment' was never even mentioned (though the word 'aversive' was mentioned once as an example of a stressor in mice). The study never made a claim that punishment was the cause, thus there is no reason to go into detail about it here. It has already been listed in Applied behavior analysis, and better belongs there than here.

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