What appears to be the most effective way for teachers to increase appropriate behaviors and decrease disruptive behaviors in their students?
A) Be very firm and harsh in response to disruption.
B) Do not reinforce the positive but be sure to punish the negative.
C) Reinforce appropriate behaviors and ignore misbehavior.
D) Classically condition appropriate behaviors while operantly reducing inappropriate behaviors.

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Reinforcing appropriate behaviors while ignoring misbehaviors is a strategy based on positive reinforcement. This approach encourages repeating desired behaviors by rewarding them, and by ignoring the misbehaviors, it reduces their occurrence over time as they are not given attention or reinforcement.

What Appears to Be the Most Effective Way for Teachers