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

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The teacher is using extinction, which involves withholding reinforcement for a behavior in order to decrease its frequency. In this case, the reinforcement was attention, and by ignoring the misbehavior, the teacher is removing that reinforcement and decreasing the likelihood of the behavior happening again.

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