Skinner's operant condition is dichotomized into a reinforcement and punishment.

Each
category is also divided into positive or negative. Reinforcement is defined as something that
strengthens the behavior or is sometimes called as the response strengthener (Schultz, 2006).
Positive reinforcement is defined as the addition of a pleasant stimulus. This is exactly what is
illustrated in the Skinner's box
The dispensed food became a positive reinforcement that caused the rat to continually push
the lever (behavior). Positive reinforcement has many classroom applications. Preschool
teachers stamp three big stars on the hands of their pupils who may have behaved throughout
the class, achieved the highest score, or become friendly within the academic time. Teachers
should make it clear to their students why they are stamping them three stars and what the
three big stars mean to maximize the use of positive reinforcement. As a result, the students
will be motivated to repeat their pleasant behavior in order to earn the stamp as a reward. It is
simple to teach children useful skills as well as good behaviors by incorporating operant
conditioning techniques into lesson plans. By using symbols like smiley faces, “Good Work”
stamps, stickers, and even simple ticks when a child does something correctly, you are
encouraging them to repeat such satisfying work further down the line.
Negative reinforcement, on the other hand, takes something away from a situation, making the
response more likely. To put it another way, it's removing a negative consequence to encourage
the behavior to happen again. Negative reinforcers include loud noises, criticisms, obnoxious
people, and poor grades, because actions that remove them are reinforcing. For instance,
Teacher X wants her Grade 3 class to master the multiplication table, so she gives the pupils a
problem set on multiplication. After a set is solved, they would recite the multiplication table
from multiples of 5 to 10. If they master the multiplication table, the problem set is withdrawn,
thus strengthening the behavior-perfectly reciting the multiplication table.