Suppose you work at Best Buy, and your boss complements you every time that you sell a single customer more than $ 1,500 worth of merchandise. It occurred to you recently that your boss has not complemented you in the past few weeks. Then you recall that, during that period, you have not had a single $1,500 sale. In this illustration, your boss is practicing a reinforcement technique referred to as

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Extinction is the removal of a reinforcer that previously followed a behavior, leading to a decrease in the behavior. In this case, the boss's compliments (reinforcer) were removed after the employee stopped making $1,500 sales (behavior), leading to a decrease in the employee's $1,500 sales.

Suppose You Work at Best Buy, and Your Boss Complements