An operant conditioning strategy designed to strengthen or increase the frequency of a behaviour by making the avoidance of an unpleasant consequence contingent on the occurrence of the behaviour is called ___.
A) punishment
B) negative reinforcement
C) extinction
D) shaping
E) deficit conditioning

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The strategy described in the question is negative reinforcement, which involves increasing the frequency of a behavior by removing or avoiding an unpleasant consequence. Punishment, on the other hand, involves applying an unpleasant consequence to decrease a behavior. Extinction involves removing reinforcement for a behavior to decrease its frequency, and shaping involves reinforcing successive approximations toward a desired behavior. Deficit conditioning is not a recognized term in psychology.

An Operant Conditioning Strategy Designed to Strengthen or Increase the Frequency