Author Question: Imagine that you want to improve a distractible child's ability to sit still and listen in class. ... (Read 159 times)

vinney12 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

Imagine that you want to improve a distractible child's ability to sit still and listen in class.
Which one of the following procedures illustrates how you might start to use shaping to do so?

a. Explain the purpose of sitting quietly before reinforcement begins.
b. Reinforce the child for sitting still on some occasions, but not others.
c. Reinforce the child for sitting still and listening for only a minute, then for progressively
longer and longer periods of time.
d. Frequently change the specific consequence you use to reinforce sitting still and listening
behavior.

Question 2

The worldwide web and long-term memory have similar properties, such as:

a. multimodality, concept associations, and searchability by content.
b. ease of recall and high-fidelity preservation of information.
c. trend lines of crystallized and fluid intelligence.
d. certain replacement by new and superior technologies.