A fourth-grade teacher realized that one of the students was misbehaving in order to receive attention. The teacher decided to ignore all instances of the misbehavior. The teacher is using ________
a. extinction
b. negative reinforcement
c. the Premack principle
d. avoidance training
Answer: a
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