An Elementary School Teacher Practically Ends Classroom Discipline Problems by Giving

question 173

Multiple Choice

An elementary school teacher practically ends classroom discipline problems by giving students "chances" in a lottery to be held at the end of the week for some small toy. The chances are considered tokens, which are used to reinforce the completing of assignments, paying attention, and other

• A)stimulus controls.
• B)target behaviors.
• C)conditioned stimuli.
• D)unconditioned stimuli.

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Definitions:

Observational Learning

A learning process through which behaviors are acquired by watching and imitating the actions of others.

Classical Conditioning

The educational practice of combining two stimuli multiple times, which leads to the response initially induced by the second stimulus being triggered by only the first stimulus in due course.

Innate Unconscious

Refers to the aspects of the mind that are believed to be inherited and operate without conscious awareness, influencing behavior and perceptions.

Conditioning

A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to associate a desired behavior with a previously unrelated stimulus.