Whenever Jan Tries to Talk on the Telephone, Her Five-Year-Old

Multiple Choice

Whenever Jan tries to talk on the telephone, her five-year-old daughter Isabel repeatedly interrupts her. If Jan wanted to use the strategy of reinforcing the non-occurrence of the problem behavior, she should:

A) politely ask Isabel to please stop interrupting her every time the bad behavior occurs.
B) send Isabel to a corner every time she interrupted Jan while she is on the phone.
C) reward Isabel for not interrupting her during a phone call.
D) tell her friend that she would call her back and immediately attend to whatever it was that Isabel wanted.