When a parent admonishes his child for taking her shoes off at the hardware store, the parent's response is intended to discourage future norm violations. This response is called a:?

This response is intended to modify the child's behavior and is classified to be under the principle of Operant Conditioning. Operant conditioning was conceptualized to modify behaviors through the use of the reward and punishment system. This type of conditioning believes that if a good behavior is rewarded, then the child will repeat his deed thus strengthening the behavior while a punishment should be given to a child for committing a wrong deed. Since the child was punished for doing something wrong, he will not do it again eventually extinguishing and weakening the bad behavior.