Situation # 2Â Â A 13-year-old boy likes tosteal cookies from a local convenience store.
-Explain how the stealing behavior might have developed in termsof Operant Conditioning. In your answer specify:Operant behavior (Voluntary response), Consequence, Reinforcement(specify Positive or Negative).
Operant behavior
Consequence
Reinforcement (specify Positive orNegative)
- In this situation involving the theft of cookies, explain howthe concepts of primary andsecondary   reinforcers might apply.
- Describe how the stealing behavior might have developed usinga Social Cognitive (Observational) Learningmodel.
- Using the Operant model, howmight the stealing behavior be extinguished?
- How might the impact of punishment differfrom the extinction you described in Q. 10(above)? In your answer provide an example of punishment that mightbe effective in this situation.
- Describe how Latent Learning might explainhow the boy knows where to find the cookies in the store.
