I. Purpose of the Project
By reinforcing a behavior, an experimenter may make a response more likely to
reoccur. In the same way through punishing a behavior, the behavior will become less
likely to occur. The purpose of this project is to prove that punishing a behavior makes it
less likely to occur.
II. Description of Behavior
The behavior is the consumption of twizzlers on a daily basis. How many
twizzlers a person consumes can be easily measured by simply counting how many they
eat. People eat twizzlers as candy treats. They are excessive and not necessary to
survival, but they do taste good. Twizzlers naturally are positive, because when one eats
them, they are positively reinforced with a good taste, and perhaps a sugar high. The
purpose of the project will be to change how many twizzlers one eats by punishing their
consumption. Therefore the hypothesis is, if one does ten pushups after they eat a
twizzler, then they will automatically stop eating as many twizzlers.
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- Spring '04
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- Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill, Twizzlers, Animorphs, Allan
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