Mark and Kathy take their 2-year-old son to the grocery every Saturday. Each wee

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Mark and Kathy take their 2-year-old son to the grocery every Saturday. Each week, the same sequence of events unfolds: Their son screams, demanding that they buy him treats. Although they refuse to give in to his demands, he continues to scream. Finally, either Mark or Kathy gets in their son's face and yells at the top of their lungs, "Shut up!" He stops screaming instantly, What operant conditioning concepts areillustrated in this story? Select one: a. Mark and Kathy are using negative reinforcement b. Mark and Kathy are using classical conditioning, and the screaming is a conditioned response c. Mark and Kathy are using punishment to stop the screaming:their use of punishment is negatively reinforced d. Their son probably learned how to scream by observing his parents at home, and now he is reinforced on a when the screaming stops variable-interval schedule of reinforcement e. Both B and C are correct

Explanation / Answer

c is correct. In this situation the parents are using punishment to stop their son from screaming. In return, their screaming behaviour is negatively reinforced by the end of the son’s screams.

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