A supervisor rewards a restaurant employee for cleaning the bathrooms by allowing the employee to stock the salad bar. ______ would predict that the opportunity to stock the salad bar would actually be reinforcing.

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

The Premack principle states that a higher probability behavior (in this case, stocking the salad bar) can serve as a reinforcement for a lower probability behavior (cleaning the bathrooms). This means that the employee is more likely to engage in cleaning the bathrooms in the future because it results in the opportunity to perform a behavior that they likely enjoy (stocking the salad bar).

A Supervisor Rewards a Restaurant Employee for Cleaning the Bathrooms