Lately, you have been reinforcing your child's temper tantrums with your attention.If you withhold your attention, ignoring the temper tantrums for several days, they will eventually stop.A psychologist would call this effect

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The scenario provided describes the process of extinction, which is when a previously reinforced behavior, in this case the temper tantrums, gradually decreases in frequency and eventually stops when the reinforcement, attention, is withheld. A, aversive conditioning, involves using unpleasant stimuli to decrease a behavior. B, shaping, involves gradually reinforcing successive approximations of a desired behavior. C, negative reinforcement, involves removing an unpleasant stimuli to increase a behavior.

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