In a study by Williams, a 20-month-old child was making life miserable for his parents by having temper tantrums when put to bed. If the parents stayed up with the child, he did not scream and cry and eventually went to sleep. The parents were advised to .

Place tantrum on extinction

Explanation:

Extinction is an explanation of the behavior. Extinction is a behavior that gradually weakening the conditioned response of a person or animal. The result of extinction will be the extinction of the behavior or disappear conditioned response or behavior. Conditioned behavior will stop eventually.  

Thus in the above statement William, a 20th-month-old child was making life very miserable for his parents because of having temper tantrums. But when parents stayed with him. He does not do the behavior. Parents need to place his tantrum on extinction through conditioning.

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