Your teenage daughter has not cleaned her room in a month. You go in and begin yelling at her to clean her room. She begins to clean up, and you stop yelling. Your daughter's cleaning behavior can be viewed as responding to
a. classical conditioning.
b. positive reinforcement.
c. punishers.
d. negative reinforcement.
D
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a. differential c. good b. cross sectional d. bad
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