Posted: April 11th, 2016

.Discuss the principles of operant conditioning

Hana is 4 years old and refuses to clean up her toys after playing. Her parents have tried many different strategies, including rewarding her after cleaning, and giving her a time out when she doesn’t listen. Often what happens is that Hana gets angry when it is clean up time and throws a tantrum. She yells and screams and sometimes even throws her toys, creating a bigger mess. Her parents feel that the only way to stop the tantrum is to pick her up and then clean up for her.

1.Discuss the principles of operant conditioning that are underlying Hana’s behavior.

2.Describe how you could apply operant conditioning theory to create a behavior modification to address Hana’s behavior.

3.Explain how the concept of extinction of behavior could be applied in this case.