Mary and Jim took their two-year-old to the supermarket this past week. For more than an hour all Little Jimmy did was yell and scream because in the past this would have obtained him an ice cream cone. Jim managed to ignore him. Finally, Little Jimmy stopped yelling and screaming. What operant conditioning concept is illustrated by this story?

Extinction is indeed a psychological condition found both in operationally regulated and classically conditioned behavior that expresses itself over time through the fading of unenforced learned response.

If historically validated operational activity no longer uses triggering effects the behavior slowly ceases to happen. Thus, from the above explanation we can conclude that the given case illustrates extinction operand conditioning.

sholanejo sholanejo · Answer 2 · 2020-02-16T15:54:40+01:00

Answer: The operant conditioning concept illustrated in this story is known as EXTINCTION.

Explanation: Extinction in operant conditioning can be defined as an act whereby a behaviour that has been previously reinforced no longer no longer produces reinforcing results. This makes the behavior in effect to gradually stops occurring. In essence when a behaviour is not reinforced, it gradually stops over time.

this story is a perfect example of extinction. a behavior that was previously reinforced ( yelling and screaming to get ice cream) was stopped because the ice cream didn't come again after yelling and screaming.