The card bearing the negative stimulus was fixed rigidly, causing the rat to fall into a net for an incorrect jump toward it (punishment), while the card bearing the positive stimulus was held by a light spring, so that when a rat jumped against it, the card fell back and allowed the animal to reach a landing platform with food (reward).
Once this is established, the next question is what incentives and disincentives - or, to give them their politically incorrect names, what bribes and punishments - are most appropriate.
The Frenchman's eighth place was the best finish in the small team's four-year history and Bianchi managed to score their first points for ninth place despite a penalty for serving a previous punishment in an incorrect fashion.
The veracity of the reinforcement was also taken into account, for example, whether the reinforcement was "true" (majority, e.g., reward following selection of the "correct" stimulus or punishment following selection of the "incorrect" stimulus), or "false"/misleading (minority, e.g., punishment following selection of the correct stimulus and reward following selection of the "incorrect" stimulus).
When he was expelled for failing two classes, he saw it as punishment for being politically incorrect.
If participants failed to retrieve item and/or source information of the target words, which were encoded in the Punishment condition, they were penalized (incorrect retrieval of item: −50 yen and incorrect retrieval of source: −50 yen for 1 trial).
Correction: April 28 , 2002 Sunday A front-page news analysis article on Thursday about disagreements among Roman Catholic Church leaders over punishment for priests who have molested minors gave an incorrect number in some copies for Catholics in the United States.
The scene in which he is about to sodomise Tony in front of Alex as a punishment for raping her is almost indescribable: it is beyond Incorrect, beyond anything in Pulp Fiction.
Up to that point the division of Germany was perceived as "punishment" for the persecution of the German Jews, although that is historically obviously incorrect.
He has issued a mea culpa, and is doing the right thing, though his punishment is surreally analogous to a surgeon being found to have conducted many incorrect and damaging operations and in turn been made to attend medical school.
