List and describe the four strengths of Guthrie’s theory.
What will be an ideal response?
1. Punishment can intensify an inappropriate behavior when punishment elicits a behavior compatible with the punished response. However, sometimes punishment can suppress the punished response even if it elicits behaviors compatible with the punished response.
2. Contiguity between a reward and a response is critical to prevent the acquisition of competing associations.
3. Only a portion of environmental stimuli are active at a given time, therefore only some of the potential conditioned stimuli become conditioned to the response.
4. Guthrie’s methods of breaking habits have become widely adopted.
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