Imagine That You Are a First-Year Teacher of the Third

question 14

Essay

Imagine that you are a first-year teacher of the third grade.Describe four ways that you would use operant conditioning to promote positive classroom behaviours.Provide examples.

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Definitions:

Biological Basis

The underlying physiological and genetic components that attribute to specific behaviors, traits, or conditions.

Observational Learning

The process of learning through watching others, retaining the information, and then later replicating the behaviors that were observed.

Prosocial Behavior

Positive, constructive, helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior.

Classical Conditioning

A training process in which two stimuli are repeatedly coupled; the response that first comes from the second stimulus, in the end, comes from the first stimulus without the second.