Chapter 2
SELECTION OF BEHAVIOR


The video appears to be an excerpt from the NBC television series “The Office” with
Dwight (Rainn Wilson) as the “subject” and Jim (John Krasinski) as the “experimenter.”

As you watch the video, consider the following:


1. What events in the video exemplify the contingency studied with the classical procedure?

2. What events in the video exemplify the contingency studied with operant procedure?

3. What events in the procedure exemplify the contingency studied with the discriminated operant procedure?

4. How is the procedure in the video best described? Justify your choice of either
a classical, operant, or discriminated operant procedure?

5. Comment on this example from the viewpoint of the unified reinforcement principle.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO