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 behavior can be viewed as responding to

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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 behavior can be viewed as responding to ​

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The daughter's cleaning behavior is an example of negative reinforcement because the yelling (an aversive stimulus) stops when she begins to clean. Negative reinforcement increases a behavior by removing or avoiding a negative outcome.

Your Teenage Daughter Has Not Cleaned Her Room in a Month