Overview

Reinforcement is the stimuli that help people strengthen a certain behavior. Reinforcement is under the behaviorism theory. Under that theory, all human actions are learnt by interacting with the environment. In education, reinforcement is often used because it is simple and effective in the early stages of developing certain habits. There are two types of reinforcement in behaviorsim. Positive reinforcement is “a stimulus that, when presented after a response, strengthens the response". The negative reinforcement is “Any stimulus that, when removed after a response, strengths the response”().