Chris's Mother Offers to Give Him a Cookie,but Only If

question 173

Multiple Choice

Chris's mother offers to give him a cookie,but only if he doesn't throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store.What concept of operant conditioning is at work here?

• A) Positive reinforcement
• B) Negative reinforcement
• C) Extinction
• D) Conditioned stimulus and conditioned response

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