Question

Fred and yvonne notice that their 10-year-old daughter is beginning to use sexually explicit profanity. The parents think that their daughter's friends might be rewarding her swearing with attention and laughter. Their thinking reflects a _____ perspective

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: . Skinnerian

The skinnerian perspective view that reward and punishment play a big role in shaping people's overall behaviour.

People tend to develop the behaviour which based on their experience benefit them in a certain way and vice versa. One thing that the parents can do to handle the problem is by countering the negative behaviour by giving better rewards for the daughter for abandoning the target behaviour.