A kindergarten teacher wants to reduce the amount of aggressiveness children display in her class and on the playground. Using operant conditioning principles, the teacher should ____.
a. use negative reinforcers to decrease the behavior
b. pair aggressiveness with some pleasant stimulus
c. eliminate the reinforcement associated with aggressiveness
d. encourage the children to get the aggressiveness out of their systems
Question 2Define, describe, and give two examples of domains of competence.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 3From an operant conditioning point of view, self-injurious behavior may be learned through the use of ____.
a. reinforcement c. implosion
b. personalization d. modeling
Question 4The authors of your text make the following statement: children's disorders coexist with their talents and success.. Describe why how this statement applies to assessment, diagnosis and treatment.
What will be an ideal response?
Question 5In classical conditioning, behaviors are controlled by events that ____ the response, whereas in operant conditioning, they are controlled by events that ____ the response.
a. intensify; reduce c. precede; follow
b. follow; precede d. increase; decrease
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