Question1
Design a strategy to reduce the undesired behavior and increase the desired behaviors using operant conditioning that you would use as the teacher of this student.
Describe what you would first do using the concept of positive reinforcement and then discuss what you could do if your initial attempts at using positive reinforcement do not result in a change in the learner’s behavior (i.e., you identified a neutral stimulus rather than a positive stimulus). What would be your next steps? Use the language of behaviorism.
Question 2
Respond to the steps below to explore how you might use operant conditioning with this group.
1. Identify the desired target behavior.
2. As best as you can anticipate, identify component tasks the learners must be able to do to achieve the target behavior.
3. Choose one of those tasks and describe methods for teaching it to a mastery level.
4. Describe techniques you would use to reinforce correct responses and to extinguish incorrect responses.
5. Describe how you would connect this component task to the next component leading to the desired target behavior.