Question

The psychologists and teachers at the Center for Children with Special Needs have designed an elaborate program that teaches the children how to feed themselves, brush their teeth, and so forth using a carefully designed program of shaping and reinforcement. This is an example of: _____

Answer 1

Answer: Behavior modification

Explanation:

The behavior modification is a process, which involves the alteration of the behavioral patterns by improvising the learning techniques as positive or negative reinforcement as biofeedback. Behavior modification process is based upon the idea of promotion of good behavior and restricting the bad or negative behavior. In this punishment is given to stop the bad behavior.

The given situation is an example of behavior modification. As it involves the reinforcement process which will make children punctual and active for their daily routine activities. This can induce positive behavior of children or improvement in behavior for their betterment.