Recognition for positive behavior is an appropriate response of the social environment to elicit desirable external behavior among the youth. Such positive responses, rendered from various social systems, include tangible and intangible reinforcements. The following theories are used to explain the importance of recognizing positive behavior: operational conditioning, observational learning, se...

Circumscribed damage to human cerebral cortex can lead to a surprisingly selective breakdown of recognition. Patients may be unable to recognize a person's identity from their face, but retain the ability to recognize identity from gait, or they may experience a disproportionate difficulty in recognizing entities belonging to certain conceptual categories, such as natural kinds, and no difficul...