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Describe four guidelines we can follow to help us use operant conditioning as a tool when we work with our students, and provide an example of each.
 
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Suppose that you have a student who is acting out in your class. Describe the steps you would follow in designing an applied behavior analysis plan to help the student learn to behave more acceptably.
 
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Answer to Question 1

Guidelines for using operant conditioning to promote learning with our students include the following. (1) Use antecedents to elicit desired behaviors, which can then be reinforced, such as prompting students when they don't initially answer. (2) Reinforce students for genuine accomplishments and good behavior, such as praising a student for a particularly insightful answer. (3). Use reinforcers and punishers appropriately to help maintain an orderly classroom, such as establishing and consistently enforcing classroom rules with appropriate consequences.

Answer to Question 2

Applied behavior analysis includes the following steps: (1) identify the target behavior, such as focusing on the student acting out; (2) establish a baseline, such as identifying the number of times per class period that the student is acting out; (3) choose reinforcers and punishers, if necessary, such as giving the student tokens for acting out no more than once per period, or, as a punisher, putting the student in timeout when he acts out; (4) measure changes in behavior, such as identifying the number of times the student acts out seeing if the number is decreasing, and




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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
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Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

 

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