Terminating or withholding the reinforcement that is maintaining an undesired behavior will result in __________

a) controlling the consequences of a behavior.
b) extinction of an undesirable behavior.
c) punishment of an undesired behavior.
d) reinforcement of an undesired behavior.

b

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