Question

When 3-year-old Luca is in the grocery store with his mother he sometimes throws temper tantrums if she refuses his requests for a particular cereal. Parent-training experts in operant conditioning would suggest that his mother should:

Answer 1

The mother should ignore his son, Luca's behavior and continue shopping.

Explanation:

Operant conditioning is a procedure which is used to bring certain learning in a person. This process involves reinforcement or punishment which as a tool to modify and change the strength of certain behavior. In this process, punishment or reward comes in picture to control the behavior when there is a presence of stimuli. Here, the ignorance is the punishment that was needed to control Luca's behavior i.e., the temper tantrums which is stimuli in his behavior.