Most psychologists would advise parents who want to change a child's bad behavior to make greater use of

A) shaping than of modeling.
B) reinforcement than of punishment.
C) classical conditioning than of operant conditioning.
D) primary reinforcers than of secondary reinforcers.

Operant Conditioning

A learning process that employs rewards and punishments to influence behavior.

Primary Reinforcers

Innate rewarding stimuli that fulfill basic biological needs or desires, such as food, water, and comfort, which do not require learning to be effective.

Shaping

A method of behavior training in which reinforcement is given for progressively closer approximations of the desired behavior.