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)
• positive social reinforcement
• negative social reinforcement
• positive automatic reinforcement
• negative automatic reinforcement

Answer 1

Negative social reinforcement — he works harder to avoid the aversive social outcome (feeling disappointed/being last), so removal/avoidance of that social aversive increases his effort.