A Police Officer Visits Ms

question 38

Multiple Choice

A police officer visits Ms.Duhaime's first-grade class one morning to talk about safety precautions at home and on the street.The students listen quietly and attentively while the officer speaks.At the end of the visit, the officer and teacher agree that the students' good behavior warrants some kind of reinforcement.Given what we know about effective reinforcers at different grade levels, their best choice would be:

• A)Twenty minutes of free time at the end of the day
• B)Plastic toy police "badges" awarded by the officer
• C)A letter home to parents describing the children's good behavior
• D)An official-looking "good behavior" certificate given at the school's award ceremony the following week

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Definitions:

Temporal Lobe

A region of the cerebral cortex responsible for processing auditory information and encoding memory.

Parietal Lobe

The parietal lobe is a region of the brain associated with processing sensory information related to touch, pressure, temperature, and pain.

Primary Auditory Cortex

The part of the temporal lobe that is responsible for processing auditory information.

Temporal

Pertaining to time or located near the temples of the head.