Mrs.Collora teaches social studies to junior high school students.Two boys in her class often loudly make jokes about the material being discussed.She has tried several techniques without success: (1)ignoring them(2)encouraging and rewarding them for contributing to the class discussion(3)removing their opportunities to participate in field trips;and (4)requiring them each to write an essay on proper behavior.In the order presented,list the operant conditioning principles she has applied to the situation.

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Mrs. Collora has applied the following operant conditioning principles in the order presented: 
1) Ignoring the behavior is an example of extinction, which involves removing the reinforcement that is maintaining a behavior in order to decrease its frequency. 
2) Encouraging and rewarding the boys for contributing to the class discussion is an example of positive reinforcement, which involves giving a reward to increase the frequency of a behavior. 
3) Removing their opportunities to participate in field trips is an example of negative punishment, which involves taking away a valued stimulus to decrease the frequency of a behavior. 
4) Requiring them to write an essay on proper behavior is an example of positive punishment, which involves adding an aversive stimulus to decrease the frequency of a behavior.

Therefore, the correct order of operant conditioning principles applied is A) extinction, positive reinforcement, negative punishment, positive punishment.

MrsCollora Teaches Social Studies to Junior High School Students