Put It in Writing Activity: Imagine that you have just beenhired as the principal of a high school where students’ attendanceand test performance has been poor and the dropout rate has beenhigh. At a meeting with your teachers, you explain that theprinciples of classical and operant conditioning could be used toimprove the situation.
Write a page describing how these principles could be used toincrease students’ class attendance, study skills, and testperformance.
Be sure to label all the concepts and principles you use (suchas “conditioned stimulus,†“positive reinforcement,†“conditionedresponse,†“discriminative conditioned stimulus,†“shaping,†andthe like)
