According to Social Learning Theorists, Operant Conditioning Is Not Enough

question 77

Multiple Choice

According to social learning theorists, operant conditioning is not enough for young children to acquire moral responses because

• A) prosocial behaviors do not increase with positive reinforcement.
• B) parents rarely provide reinforcement following a prosocial act.
• C) many prosocial acts occur so rarely at first that reinforcement cannot explain their rapid development.
• D) negative reinforcement does not decrease the likelihood of antisocial behavior.

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