In her recent book a psychologist described several cases that exhibit the following pattern: A child, denied something by its parent, initiates problematic behavior such as screaming; the behavior escalates until finally the exasperated parent acquiesces to the child's demand.
Given
Several cases that exhibit the following pattern:
1. A child, denied something by its parent, initiates problematic behavior such as screaming; the behavior escalates until finally the exasperated parent acquiesces to the child’s demand.
2. At this point the child, having obtained the desired goal, stops the problematic behavior, to the parent’s relief.
3. This self-reinforcing pattern of misbehavior and accommodation is repeated with steadily increasing levels of misbehavior by the child.
Evaluate
There are three steps in the pattern and each wrong answer will reflect one or more steps in this pattern of misbehavior.