Mrs.Parker's first grade has gotten used to just calling out Mrs.Parker's name to get her attention.Mrs.Parker has decided that she will only call on the students who quietly raise their hands to get her attention, while she will not attend to those students who loudly call out her name.Eventually, the students will stop loudly calling out her name because of the behavioral principle of

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The principle at work here is extinction, which refers to the gradual decrease in the frequency or strength of a behavior as a result of no longer reinforcing it. In this case, Mrs. Parker is no longer attending to students who call out her name loudly, which means they are no longer being reinforced for that behavior. Over time, students will gradually stop calling out loudly because it is no longer effective in getting Mrs. Parker's attention.

MrsParker's First Grade Has Gotten Used to Just Calling Out