GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
OPERANT CONDITIONING
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Question
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Maryanne worked hard with her kindergarten class to teach them to say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. Maryanne rewarded the students by saying ‘well done’ each time they said ‘please’ or ‘thank you’ at an appropriate time. After a week, Maryanne decided the class knew how to use these words correctly and stopped saying ‘well done’.After a couple of weeks, she noticed that the students no longer said ‘please’ and ‘thank you’. This is most likely because;
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Maryanne did not punish the students.
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a learned response will become extinct if it is not reinforced.
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the students discriminated between saying ‘please’ and ‘thank you’ and getting a reward.
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Maryanne used a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement which is not as effective as a fixed-interval schedule.
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Explanation:
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