As a teenager, it seemed that your mom was always nagging you to clean your room. Eventually, you learned that if you cleaned your room every Saturday morning, you would not have to listen to her nagging. Your mother was successful in getting you to clean your room through the use of _____ to establish _____.

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Negative reinforcement involves the removal of an unpleasant stimulus (in this case, nagging) to increase the likelihood of a behavior (cleaning the room). Avoidance learning occurs when the behavior prevents an unpleasant situation from happening.

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