The mother should continue shopping and ignore his child’s
tantrums. Operant conditioning works where by the behavior is controlled by
consequences. The key thoughts in this learning is positive and negative
reinforcement and positive and negative punishment. In this case, simply
ignoring the tantrum every time it happens so that this would serve as a reward
to stop the tantrum. As well, the mother may be exhilarated her child to give
rewards when the tantrums ends.
