Description
Consider the following scenario:
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- to 700-word paper 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.
Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
Explanation & Answer
Please find the attached word document
Running head: REINFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
Reinforcement Procedures
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Operant behavior, children to increase the amount of peas they consume
Operant behavior is kind of behavior that is maintained by its results and such behavior
can be controlled by people (Alo 2013). In this scenario, the behavior being reinforced by the
mother is her children to consume more peas. This behavior has the consequences as well as it is
being controlled by the mother. The consequences are the rewards, the more a child consumes,
the higher the rewards.
Positive Reinforcement method
This reinforcement technique uses rewards to encourage or retain the desired behavior.
As a result, the likelihood of the reinforced behavior reoccurring is high due to the anticipated
results (Bhutto, 2013). In this case, the mother has associated high co...
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