Respond to the following questions in 175 to 350 words each.
1. 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?
2. 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?
3. 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?
4. Conversely, 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?
Consistent with APA guidelines,
originality only all internet sources must be cited.
