Answer to Question #144923 in Psychology for qurat ul ain

Question

.Every day, Mrs. Markle gives her secondgraders a math worksheet to fill out. The work-sheet consists of five addition or subtraction prob-lems. Mrs. Markle noticed that Jake completes allfive problems on his worksheet only once ortwice a week. She wanted Jake to complete allfive problems every day. She decided that shewould use shaping with Jake to achieve this goal.What is the problem with this application of shaping

Answer 1

Shaping is best applied where the individual does not exhibit the target behavior. In this case, Jake completes all five questions occassionally. As such, differential reinforcement is most suitable to eliminate the reinforcer that causes Jake not attend to the questions and reinforce the behavior of completing these questions.