To deal with 4-year-old anne's temper tantrums at home and preschool, the behavior therapist trained anne's parents and her preschool teachers to modify the problem behavior by using and which are two techniques based on operant conditioning. punishment; conditional acceptance unconditional acceptance; empathic understanding extinction; positive reinforcement counterconditioning; systematic desensitization

Positive reinforcement and punishment. In operant conditioning, there are 4 types of consequences that are used to modify behavior: reinforcement (positive and negative) and punishment (positive and negative). Reinforcement is used to increase the frequency of a behavior; punishment is used to reduce the frequency.

Bob: coke is baby pandas.jim: what? how do you figure that coke is baby pandas? bob: because this book says so.jim: how do we know the book is correct? bob: because it says that coke is baby pandas.jim: how does that prove the book's accuracy? bob: because it's statement involving coke and baby pandas is correct, therefore it is accurate.jim: how do we know that it's correct? bob: because we have concluded that the book is accurate, and therefore the statement is correct.therefore, coke is baby pandas.