An Organisational Behaviour Modification Strategy Designed to Eliminate or Decrease

question 42

Multiple Choice

An organisational behaviour modification strategy designed to eliminate or decrease the frequency of a behaviour by making an unpleasant consequence contingent on the occurrence of the behaviour is called:

• A) negative reinforcement.
• B) extinction.
• C) frustration-regression.
• D) deficit conditioning.
• E) punishment.

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Definitions:

Cooperative Principle

A principle in pragmatics introduced by H.P. Grice, suggesting that participants in a conversation naturally cooperate with each other by making their contributions as informative, relevant, and truthful as needed.

Recursion

A method in mathematics and computer science where a function calls itself in order to solve a problem or process data.

Two-Word Utterances

A stage in language development where children start using two-word phrases to communicate more complex ideas, typically occurring around the age of 2.

Ambiguity

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