Question

Three-year-old lauren refuses to stay in her own bed at night. when her parents put her back in her own bed, she screams and cries unless one of them stays in the room with her. after talking with a behavior therapist, the parents began using operant conditioning techniques that involved:

Answer 1

Positive reinforcement which is to give something pleasant after the child does something good. It can be giving a gift or a piece of chocolate or candy or toy or anything that the kid likes. It can be also a story. Let's say if the kid wants a story to be read you can make a kind of barter I read the story to you and you sleep in you own bed or you can play with your favorite toy if you sleep in your own bed.