A child smiles and gains attention from a caretaker, so the child begins to smile more often. This is an example of _______.

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Nataly [62]3 years ago

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Answer:

B. Operant conditioning

Explanation:

In psychology, the term operant conditioning refers to a form of learning by reinforcements and punishments.

According to this, a reinforcement is an stimulus that increases the probability that a certain behavior takes place again in a future, so, <u>when the individual is presented with this stimulus, the behavior will be more likely repeated in the future and it will happen more often.</u>

In this example a child smiles and gains attention, <u>the reinforcement would be the gaining of attention, which would be the stimulus that is making the child to begin to smile more often</u>. Gaining attention is something desirable and pleasant for the child so it's a reinforcement for the conduct of smiling.

Therefore this is an example of b. operant conditioning.

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