A great example I can share from work is: A patient I work with has displayed undesirable behaviors because she wanted a soda on command. A plan was put in place to decrease the patient's undesirable behaviors and to reward the patient with a soda over time if the patient waits in intervals starting with 15 minutes then changed to 30 minutes and then to a set time every day. Since a plan to teach patience has been implemented into her treatment plan, her behavior to be patient for a soda has increased tremendously her undesirable behaviors have decreased. This was considered a positive reinforcement for this patient and her goal was exceeded to patiently wait for a soda. Even parents could benefit from operant conditioning when using positive or negative reinforcement when handling children and their behaviors. I do this just about every day with my twins. (Positive reinforcement) When they play together I praise them and talk to them about how nicely they are playing together. (Negative reinforcement) When they are playing together and not fighting I don’t interrupt them I allow them to play. (Punishment) When they are not playing so nicely together and cannot share an item, I remove the item and put it …show more content…
Other students can see and recognize and learn from each other's behaviors and learn what the consequences are. A good example used in the chapter was if students are placed in time out due to misbehaving with each other. Students are placed very close to each other and given a goal of working out their differences. What I liked about this is that the timeout was for both parties and both parties had to figure out a plan to behave better and have a discussion about their actions. Use of operant conditioning and behavioral analysis in the classroom can help manage different behaviors in the classroom when used