This assignment requires some careful thinking about reinforcement and punishment. Your text discusses factors to consider in the effective use of reinforcement (p. 94-114) and punishment (p. 133-151). Your task is now to consider that material closely and then answer the questions that follow. Please type your responses.
(a) Assume that part of the plan will involve reinforcement. Recall the factors
that contribute to the effective use of reinforcement and describe the
reinforcement part of the plan.
(b)
Assume that part of the plan will involve punishment. Using
the factors discussed in your text, describe the punishment part of the plan.
2. Many schools have introduced zero-tolerance policies regarding the way in which school-based offenses will be punished. For example, first-graders have been suspended for using their fingers to simulate guns and then play “cops-and-robbers." Also, a male kindergartner has been brought up on sexual harassment charges for giving a female kindergartner a kiss on the ch
3. Juanita is trying to discourage her cat from jumping up on the
counter in her apartment. (a) Juanita wants to use operant conditioning
techniques (e.g., reinforcement, punishment) for the best possible outcome
(b) What things should Juanita avoid doing in order
to prevent unwanted outcomes or undesirable side-effects for the cat?
4. (a) From a learning perspective, what is learned helplessness (avoid defining as strictly a mental health phenomenon)? (b) The development of learned helplessness in the conditioning process is an undesirable outcome. Discuss two factors that need to be present in a punishment conditioning procedure in order to PREVENT or MINIMIZE the occurrence of learned helplessness.