Author Question: If you wanted to encourage kindergartners to delay gratification, you would be most likely to: a. ... (Read 107 times)

EY67 · **on:** Jun 20, 2018

If you wanted to encourage kindergartners to delay gratification, you would be most likely to:

a. tell them that how well they behave at the end of the day is what really counts.
b. ask them to focus on how good it feels to do something nice for a classmate.
c. talk about how their learning efforts today will pay off in the years to come.
d. occasionally remind them that they will get a bigger reward by waiting a couple of hours.

Question 2

Six-year-old Jack has recently learned to appreciate the value of money, so his father assigns him some simple housekeeping chores to be performed throughout the week. He tells Jack that completion of these chores will earn him an allowance of one dollar every Saturday. Jack rarely completes his chores. From a behaviorist perspective, which one of the following is most likely to be the reason why Jack is not doing his chores?

a. Reinforcement is not immediate.
b. Reinforcement is not contingent on the desired response.
c. Money is not an effective reinforcer for most six-year-olds.
d. The reinforcer is presented before the response