Your teenage daughter has not cleaned her room in a month. You go in and begin yelling at her to clean her room. She begins to clean up, and you stop yelling. Your daughter's cleaning behaviour can be viewed as responding to

Question

Quizplus · Accepted Answer

Your daughter's cleaning behavior is an example of negative reinforcement. In this scenario, the yelling (an aversive stimulus) stops when she begins to clean her room. This removal of an unpleasant condition as a consequence of her behavior makes it more likely that she will clean her room in the future to avoid the yelling.

Your Teenage Daughter Has Not Cleaned Her Room in a Month