While Walking Through the Mall, a Young Boy Sees a New

question 371

Multiple Choice

While walking through the mall, a young boy sees a new pair of shoes and immediately tells his grandmother that he would like to have them. The grandma initially refuses, prompting the boy to get upset and he starts to cry. The grandma hates to see her grandson get upset, so she changes her mind and buys him the shoes. In this example, we could say that the grandma's initial refusal was _____________ and the boy's mini-tantrum was ____________.

• A)the conditioned stimulus; the conditioned response
• B)the consequence; the discriminative stimulus
• C)classically extinguished; extinguished via operant conditioning
• D)aversively punished; positively reinforced