Question

John’s mother wants her son to stop crying every time something goes wrong. Following a psychologist’s advice, she stops running to comfort John whenever the boy starts crying over some minor incident. After a few weeks, she notices that John cries much less frequently than he used to. This is an example of:_____________. a. positive reinforcement. b. negative reinforcement. c. punishment. d. extinction.

Answer 1

Answer:

Extinction

Explanation:

When a person or animal starts to stop engaging in the previously learned task. It is called extinction. Extinction is related to vanished a conditioned behavior. On the other hand, it is said that the conditioned behavior eventually gets stopped.  

For instance, we can say that when our dog starts to stop shake hands because of our lack of response. The behavior will gradually stop.  

Thus in the above question, John cries much less frequently than he used to because of extinction.