At the beginning of the school year, Mr. Webber is concerned that Frances rarely does her independent seatwork. He begins praising Frances for each seatwork assignment she completes, and by January she is completing her assignments regularly.
To make sure that the behavior continues in the years to come, what would operant conditioning theorists tell Mr. Webber to do now?
a. Praise her more often than before.
b. Praise her for only some of her completed assignments.
c. Punish Frances when she doesn't complete an assignment.
d. Switch from a social reinforcer to a concrete reinforcer.
Question 2
Daveda has always had a knack for working with numbers. As a child, she often sought out mathematical brainteasers that would challenge her, and when she reached high school, she enrolled in the most challenging math courses in the curriculum.
By twelfth grade, she was taking an advanced calculus course at a nearby university. Daveda's behavior is a good example of:
a. Situated cognition
b. Niche-picking
c. Intermittent reinforcement
d. Distributed cognition
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