Situation # 2   A 13-year-old boy likes to steal cookies from a local convenience store. -Explain how...

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Situation # 2   A 13-year-old boy likes tosteal cookies from a local convenience store.

-Explain how the stealing behavior might have developed in termsof Operant Conditioning. In your answer specify:Operant behavior (Voluntary response), Consequence, Reinforcement(specify Positive or Negative).

Operant behavior

Consequence

Reinforcement (specify Positive orNegative)

- In this situation involving the theft of cookies, explain howthe concepts of primary andsecondary   reinforcers might apply.

- Describe how the stealing behavior might have developed usinga Social Cognitive (Observational) Learningmodel.

- Using the Operant model, howmight the stealing behavior be extinguished?

- How might the impact of punishment differfrom the extinction you described in Q. 10(above)? In your answer provide an example of punishment that mightbe effective in this situation.

- Describe how Latent Learning might explainhow the boy knows where to find the cookies in the store.

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The 13 year old boy likes to steal cookies from the store because first of all he has developed an urge to eat that product which gives him extreme enjoyment and that too upto a maximum level that he is ready    See Answer
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