Juno’s case deals with a myriad of issues of early abandonment, low human interaction, racism, bullying, and even linguistic problems. However, as focusing on the past are not the salient points for behavioral approach, our goal here is to teach Juno to eliminate unwanted behaviors and learn new behaviors that most possibly can overcome his social anxiety disorder. In a way, he learned those certain types of inappropriate behaviors, so it is possible to learn new behaviors to decrease his inappropriate behaviors and to increase his appropriate behaviors. As a matter of fact, if he continues with his inappropriate behavior regardless to inside or outside of school, it’s unacceptable and possibly might get worse. In addition, despite what went
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In other words, I feel like his behaviors is more covered with of emptiness and inappropriate behaviors, so learning with reinforcements seems better to eliminate those unwanted behaviors. For instance, to increase his appropriate behavior with positive reinforcement, we can give him candies or desserts whenever he speaks and participates in class (not only to the teacher but also when they are doing group work with his friends), or even providing pizza parties when he obtains more than 20 candies or shows more effort on participating. For another example, we can give an “A” or an award on any of the classes he’s doing good at. Let’s say he is still smart in math, giving him an “A” or an award will bring at least one positive behavior towards him when he walks into his math …show more content…
Also with negative reinforcement, when he asks more than six questions in a day, we can give no homework or reduce one homework for everybody in the class (in order to avoid inequality in the class), which increases his participation in class. Also, if his school ended at 2:00pm, the teacher can dismiss his/her students at 1:40 by reducing 20 mins of class time. Overall, all this punishments and reinforcement are done for eliminating the unwanted behaviors and learning new positive
In other words, I feel like his behaviors is more covered with of emptiness and inappropriate behaviors, so learning with reinforcements seems better to eliminate those unwanted behaviors. For instance, to increase his appropriate behavior with positive reinforcement, we can give him candies or desserts whenever he speaks and participates in class (not only to the teacher but also when they are doing group work with his friends), or even providing pizza parties when he obtains more than 20 candies or shows more effort on participating. For another example, we can give an “A” or an award on any of the classes he’s doing good at. Let’s say he is still smart in math, giving him an “A” or an award will bring at least one positive behavior towards him when he walks into his math …show more content…
Also with negative reinforcement, when he asks more than six questions in a day, we can give no homework or reduce one homework for everybody in the class (in order to avoid inequality in the class), which increases his participation in class. Also, if his school ended at 2:00pm, the teacher can dismiss his/her students at 1:40 by reducing 20 mins of class time. Overall, all this punishments and reinforcement are done for eliminating the unwanted behaviors and learning new positive