Reinforcement Procedures Paper (Theories of Behavior Class), psychology homework help

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A mom is trying to increase the amount of peas that her two children eat. She uses a sticker chart to monitor the amount of peas they are consuming and rewards them based on the number of stickers they have at the end of the week. The mom has found that this works for one child, but not the other.

Write a 350- discussing the following:

  • Identify the behavior that the mom is trying to reinforce.
  • Identify the method of reinforcement being used.
  • Explain possible reasons for this method working for one child and not the other.
  • Propose and outline three ideas that may work to increase pea consumption for the children, and include one method that uses negative reinforcement.

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Running Head: THEORIES OF BEHAVIOR

Theories of Behavior
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Institution
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THEORIES OF BEHAVIOR
Theories of Behavior
The kind of behavioral change that the mom was trying to instill can be termed as operant
conditioning which is associated with Burrhus Frederic Skinner who felt that classical conditioning
did not adequately express the complex human nature of behavior. The reason for this argument
in this particular analogy of the mum and he...


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