A student engages in disruptive behavior in the classroom in order to get attention from the teacher. In order to decrease the disruptive behavior, the teacher gives the student frequent attention so that receiving attention by engaging in disruptive behavior is less reinforcing. Which antecedent control strategy is the teacher using to decrease the student's disruptive behavior?
a. removing cues for the problem behavior
b. decreasing response effort
c. removing the discriminative stimulus
d. presenting an abolishing operation
d
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