Question

Dan comes home from school and right away his mother starts yelling at him about the big mess he left in his room. Dan walks past his mother, into his room, and shuts the door. Dan is demonstrating ____ behavior.

Answer 1

Answer:

Escape behavior

Explanation:

Escape behavior is a type of response elicited in order to move away to terminate a stimulus that is presented to serve as an unpleasant consequence in decreasing an unwanted behavior. Such escape behavior that terminates aversive stimulus tends to become increased with time.

Dan’s demonstrating an escape behavior to terminate the yelling of his mother .