CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
A child gets up and runs away from the class during carpet time. She’s running around the room. You use a stern teacher voice, the student stops running around and she returns to the carpet. You are more likely to use stern teacher voice in the future. Teacher behavior ____
A
Positive Reinforcement
B
Negative Reinforcement
C
Positive Punishment
D
Negative Punishment
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Confiscating the phone if a student is caught using it is positive punishment. This is a classic operant conditioning example in the classroom. Operant conditioning examples in the classroom also include a teacher scolding a student publicly for repeating mistakes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Operant conditioning, also known as instrumental conditioning, is a type of associative learning. In operant conditioning, behavior is followed by rewards or punishments as consequences. When a behavior is paired with a consequence repeatedly, an association is formed to create new behavior.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operant conditioning (also known as instrumental conditioning) is a process by which humans and animals learn to behave in such a way as to obtain rewards and avoid punishments. It is also the name for the paradigm in experimental psychology by which such learning and action selection processes are studied.

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