You discover that a phone that has always worked no longer does so. You stop using it. In operant conditioning, this would be an example of
A) extinction.
B) punishment.
C) negative reinforcement.
D) intermittent reinforcement.

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Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in frequency or disappearance of a previously learned behavior due to the lack of reinforcement. In this case, the behavior of using the phone is no longer reinforced (in this case, the phone no longer works), so the behavior gradually decreases and eventually stops.

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