{"pk":25536,"title":"Teaching with Rewards and Punishments: Reinforcement or Communication?","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Teaching with evaluative feedback involves expectations\nabout how a learner will interpret rewards and punishments.\nWe formalize two hypotheses of how a teacher implicitly\nexpects a learner to interpret feedback – a reward-maximizing\nmodel based on standard reinforcement learning and an\naction-feedback model based on research on communicative\nintent – and describe a virtual animal-training task that\ndistinguishes the two. The results of two experiments in\nwhich people gave learners feedback for isolated actions\n(Exp. 1) or while learning over time (Exp. 2) support the\naction-feedback model over the reward-maximizing model","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"pedagogy; reward; punishment; reinforcement\nlearning; feedback; evaluative feedback; communication"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90k992w4","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mark","middle_name":"K","last_name":"Ho","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown","department":""},{"first_name":"Michael","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Littman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown","department":""},{"first_name":"Fiery","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cushman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Harvard","department":""},{"first_name":"Joseph","middle_name":"L","last_name":"Austerweil","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25536/galley/15160/download/"}]}