Question

At the end of lacrosse practice, the team runs sprints. Enzo always finishes in last place. Although he feels disappointed that he is the slowest person on the team, he vows to work even harder to increase his speed throughout this season. What does this scenario BEST represent?

(1 point)
Responses

positive social reinforcement

positive social reinforcement

negative social reinforcement

negative social reinforcement

positive automatic reinforcement

positive automatic reinforcement

negative automatic reinforcement

Answer 1

Negative automatic reinforcement.

He increases effort to avoid or stop an internal aversive state (his disappointment). That's removal/avoidance of an internal (automatic) unpleasant stimulus, which is negative automatic reinforcement.