Marty is a busy father who works long hours and has little time for his son ben. when ben behaves aggressively, marty spends considerable time lecturing him about the inappropriateness of his behavior. ben's aggressive behaviors have increased in frequency for the past few months. how would a behaviorist explain this?

With the increased attention, Marty is positively reinforcing the aggression of Ben.

As Ben is deprived of the attention Marty needs to give, the time Ben gets is just the result of his aggressive behavior which in itself is a kind of reinforcement for Ben to increase in his aggressiveness in order to get more of Marty’s time.  

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panem is a communist totalitarian dictatorship where all the resources and how they are allocated belongs to the capitol. the districts exist only to provide goods and services for the capital and most of the citizens live in poverty. it is a police state where the "peacekeepers" use force and threats to keep the people under control. dissent is outlawed and those who disobey the law are executed, flogged, or turned into avoxes. the games are another means in which the ruling elite in the capitol exert their power over the districts. when reading the books i drew parallels between panem and the soviet union and north korea. in no way is panem capitalist. the people in the capitol are wealthy but the majority of them are involved in the government somehow. it was the same way in the former soviet union where bigwigs in the communist party and high ranking government officials were given access to goods, services, medical treatments not available to the general public. if you think panem has a capitalist economy you need to brush up on your economics.