Mary arrives home to find her son washing the dirty dishes left from his party the night before. When she discovers his first-semester grade report on the table and sees that he got straight A's,
Mary rewards him by relieving him of the unpleasant task of finishing the dishes. Which operant process does the example illustrate?
a. positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement
c. extinction
d. punishment
b
Psychology
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a. Acrophobia; claustrophobia b. Ochlophobia; agoraphobia c. Astraphobia; acrophobia d. Agoraphobia; acrophobia e. Agoraphobia; claustrophobia
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In the Hersey-Blanchard model of leadership (1993), providing high degrees of both task oriented-and relationship-oriented leadership is also known as _________________
a. telling b. selling c. participating d. delegating
Psychology