Emanuel is trying to get his daughter to stop biting her nails. His plan is to ignore his daughter’s nail biting, but praise her at every 10-minute interval in which she does not bite her nails. Gradually, Emanuel plans to lengthen the amount of time between praise. If Emanuel’s method is successful, the disappearance of nail biting would be considered which of the following??
a. ?Extinction
b. ?Punishment
c. ?Negative reinforcement
d. ?Modeling
ANSWER:
a
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