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Old Jan 23, 2015, 11:24 PM
roimata roimata is offline
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Originally Posted by ThisWayOut View Post
are you meaning more of something that feels like punishment?
negative reinforcement is actually removing something as a means of reinforcement. For instance, my dog barks until she gets dinner. It's annoying. Once I feed her, she stops barking. The end to the barking is negatively reinforcing me to feed her (yes, I know the training is reversed, my dog and I have talked about this )... I didn't get anything like that from my DBT experiences, but the stupid chain analyses felt like punishments, as did the myriad of paperwork and the uncomfortable "group processing" sessions for when I "slipped up" and sh'd... Hmm, I guess that can be seen as negative reinforcement though: in theory, none of that would happen if I "behaved" and refrained from the sh... hmm... ok. nm.
Yes. I should have used something more like "adverse consequences" since "negative reinforcement" is ambiguous and can be comprehended differently.
Thanks for this!
ThisWayOut