Question

In a home for troubled youth, adolescents receive large colored buttons when they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The adolescents return the buttons to staff members to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of___________

Answer 1

Operant Conditioning

Step-by-step explanation:

In this method, the boys are punished if they don’t do on time what they told them to do and reward them if they do right. With time, they associate what the authorities want they to still follow and what no to avoid consequences. The method is to change the actions with mental torture. In other words, discipline by force.