Whenever Matt is told to run laps during basketball practice, he complains to the coach that he is too tired in order to get out of running. The coach starts making him run the laps anyway, and eventually Matt stops complaining about being too tired when he is told to run. This is an example of:

a. extinction of a negatively reinforced behavior
b. spontaneous recovery
c. extinction of a positively reinforced behavior
d. punishment


a

Psychology

You might also like to view...

According to novelists and filmmakers, the search for identity is described as a struggle, a time of ____ for adolescents

a. tabula rasa b. peace and tranquility c. storm and stress d. ebb and flow

Psychology

How likely are children of all ages to conform to peer pressure for antisocial behavior compared with more positive behavior?

a. about as likely c. more likely b. less likely d. not at all likely

Psychology

"The whole is more than the sum of its sensory parts" is a statement reflecting

a. experience-based inference. b. the artificial intelligence approach. c. environmental adaptation. d. Gestalt psychology. e. top-down processing.

Psychology

Under what conditions and how can a minority influence the majority?

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology