Suppose You Use Option 1 and Spend Time with Umberto

question 111

Multiple Choice

Suppose you use option 1 and spend time with Umberto every day and his work improves. When you stop meeting with this employee daily, his performance declines. How might you explain this change?

• A) You have punished him by stopping the meetings.
• B) You have inadvertently decreased the desired behavior through extinction.
• C) You have negatively reinforced his behavior.
• D) You have disproved the law of effect.
• E) You have delivered an aversive consequence.

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