Chris' mother offers to give him a cookie, but only if he doesn't throw a temper tantrum in the grocery store. What concept of operant conditioning is at work here?

a. positive reinforcement
b. negative reinforcement
c. extinction
d. conditioned stimulus and conditioned response


A

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