Emily, at age 6, is scared of the dark. Her parents ignore her when she says that she doesn't want to go to sleep with the door closed, because they think her fear will go away if they don't respond to it. Emily's parents are trying to:

a. classically condition a new response to the dark room.
b. extinguish her fear of the dark.
c. negatively reinforce her fear of the dark.
d. operantly condition a new response to the dark room.


B

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