Reinforcement Worksheet, psychology homework help
Reinforcement Worksheet
Respond to the
following questions in 175 to 350 words each.
- Choose a behavior you
would like to shape on someone you know. Select a terminal and initial
behavior and the steps you would use to shape the behavior. Would you
utilize punishment or reinforcement? Would fixed or variable outcomes play
a role in your procedure?
- Choose a task that you would
teach a 5-year-old child to perform. Consider some of the following: tying
shoe laces, brushing teeth, making a sandwich, making a bed, and so forth.
What would your task analysis look like? For example, what would the steps
be and how many steps would you have? Once you develop the task analysis,
what might you do before putting it into place to ensure its
effectiveness?
- You just taught a shy 2nd-grade
student how to ask for help when he needed it on his vocabulary sight
words rather than sitting quietly and not completing his work. However, you
want the behavior to occur in other settings when he needs help. What
process would you follow to teach him how to ask for help in multiple
contexts?
- Conversly, one of the
2nd-grade boy’s classmates is raising her hand and asking for help even on
tasks she knows how to complete. This happens during recess, in phys ed,
or when given a task she has completed multiple times before. What process
would you follow to teach when and where raising her hand is appropriate?
