A child tries hard to earn the reinforcer his teacher has told him he will get for good behavior.
Ms. Kennedy is reinforcing him for the distracting behaviors.
Elbert wants to become a professional football player so others will admire him.
Carol doesn't think she has the ability to do the work successfully.
Good grades are reinforcing to some children but not to others. Someone explaining this fact from an operant conditioning perspective would say that good grades are most likely to be reinforcers to children who:
Enrolling in a course lets you earn progress by passing quizzes and exams.
The best place to begin encouraging these desirable behavioral patterns is when the child is an infant, as you will want to improve their regular eating along with sleeping habits each day.
When the infants turn into two-year-olds, these routines such as eating, feeding, toileting, and dressing are also golden opportunities for childcare workers to provide toddlers confidence in their self-help skills as they begin to regulate their behaviors and learn language.
To set this lesson in motion, we shall define the terms self-help, which is when a child uses their own abilities to achieve goals with the assistance of other persons , and self-regulation, which is when a child consciously controls their behaviors, feelings, and thoughts.
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A child tries hard to earn the reinforcer his teacher has told him he will get for good behavior.
Ms. Kennedy is reinforcing him for the distracting behaviors.
Elbert wants to become a professional football player so others will admire him.
Carol doesn't think she has the ability to do the work successfully.
Good grades are reinforcing to some children but not to others. Someone explaining this fact from an operant conditioning perspective would say that good grades are most likely to be reinforcers to children who: