Sue Is a First-Grade Student Who Has Been in School

Sue is a first-grade student who has been in school for three months. She completes all of her work with high accuracy rates and is an active learner. However, her teacher notices that she is very demanding of her peers while they play together. She frequently becomes angry and quits whenever she does not get what she wants. Sometimes she hits and yells at the other students. Her teacher would like to teach her to handle her frustration in a more productive way that will not harm her peer relationships. According to B.F. Skinner and other behavior theorists, what would be the appropriate sequence that her teacher should follow in order to modify the behavior?

A) Select a replacement behavior, directly teach the replacement behavior, reward successive approximations to the replacement behavior and provide consequences for the reoccurrence of the problem behavior
B) Select a replacement behavior, reward every other occurrence of the replacement behavior
C) Provide a consequence every time the problem behavior occurs but do not react when the replacement behavior occurs
D) Document each occurrence of the replacement behavior and reward the student once each week when they have demonstrated the behavior a certain number of times