You Take Two Aspirin to Remove a Headache

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True/False

You take two aspirin to remove a headache. Thirty minuteslater, the headache is gone. You are now more likely to take aspirin to deal with bodily aches and pain in the future. Inother words, negative reinforcement by escape has occurred.

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