Suppose you use option 1 and spend time with Umberto every day and his work improves. When you stop meeting with this employee daily, his performance declines. How might you explain this change?
A) You have punished him by stopping the meetings.
B) You have inadvertently decreased the desired behavior through extinction.
C) You have negatively reinforced his behavior.
D) You have disproved the law of effect.
E) You have delivered an aversive consequence.

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Extinction is withdrawing or failing to provide a reinforcing consequence. When this occurs, motivation is reduced, and the behavior is extinguished, or eliminated.

Suppose You Use Option 1 and Spend Time with Umberto