Your Employees Have Been Appropriately Engaging in a Particular Behavior

question 78

Multiple Choice

Your employees have been appropriately engaging in a particular behavior for several years and have been positively reinforced for doing so.A change in the law now makes this behavior unacceptable.What should you do?

• A) Punish the behavior until it disappears.
• B) Use extinction to get rid of the behavior.
• C) Use punishment to get rid of the undesirable behavior and then positively reinforce the desired behavior.
• D) Combine extinction of the unacceptable behavior with positive reinforcement of the desired behavior.
• E) Use avoidance toward the undesirable behavior and positive reinforcement of the desired behavior.

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Definitions:

Decreases

A decrease in the magnitude, amount, or intensity of an object or concept.

Horizontal Line

A straight line that has a constant y-coordinate for all its points, indicating it is parallel to the x-axis.

Slope

The measure of steepness or incline of a line, indicating the rate of change between two variables.

Continually Changing

Describes a state of constant evolution or modification, not remaining static.