Question

When grocery shopping with his mother, 4-year-old Hakim sometimes throws temper tantrums if his mother refuses his requests for a particular snack food. Parent-training experts would suggest that his mother should ________

Answer 1

Explanation: allow him his time with the tantrums. She should speak words into him to make him deviate from the tantrums. She should make him understand that he can't always get his way all the time. That sometimes he has got to compromise.

Answer 2

C)continue shopping while ignoring Hakim's tantrums.

Step-by-step explanation:

The options for this question are missing. The possible answers are:

a) Threaten to punish Hakim if he continues his tantrums.

B)offer to buy the snack food Hakim wants only if he quiets down and behaves himself.

C)continue shopping while ignoring Hakim's tantrums.

D)return any snack foods that are already in her cart to the store shelves.

According to psychology and classical conditioning, a behavior is established by a series of reinforcements. When we reinforce a behavior, it is more probable that it will happen in the future. So, if we want to make a behavior stop, we should stop reinforcing it.

There are many ways to do this, but when dealing with kids, the best way to not reinforce a conduct is to ignore the conduct, especially when it comes to tantrums. This way, they are not getting the attention they are looking for by doing this and they learn that tantrums don't help them to get their requests done.

In this example Hakin throws temper tantrums if his mother refuses his requests for a particular snack food. Therefore, we can conclude that the best way to stop this behavior would be to not reinforce this by ignoring this behavior. Therefore, the right answer would be: C) continue shopping while ignoring Hakim's tantrums.