Question

In a residential treatment facility for troubled youth, adolescent children receive large colored buttons when they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The children return the buttons to staff members in order to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of:

Answer 1

Operant conditioning

Step-by-step explanation:

Operant conditioning sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning, is a method of learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior.

So making your bed, hanging up your clothes and coming to meals on time signifies good behaviour in the residential treatment facility and then you are rewarded later with either snacks or TV.