Jorge has noticed that one of the boys in his 4-year-old class is unable to focus on his own activities and keeps interrupting his peers, disrupting story time and other group activities, and upsetting other students. Jorge wants to use operant conditioning to shape the boy's behavior. To do this, he needs ALL BUT WHICH ONE of the following pieces of information?
A) How often the boy is disrupting the class now
B) What reinforcers would interest the boy
C) How often other children misbehave in the classroom
D) An analysis of the components of the boys misbehavior
C
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