Because you fed your dog table scraps while sitting at
the kitchen table, your dog began to jump up and beg for scraps first whenever you were sitting at the kitchen table and later whenever you were sitting at any table or desk in the house. If you do not feed your dog while sitting at any other table besides the kitchen table, the jumping and begging response that originally generalized to all the tables and desks will extinguish because of
a. negative reinforcement.
b. nonreinforcement.
c. positive punishment.
d. latent learning.
ANSWER: b
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