A teacher does not respond to the students who call out a question without raising their hands.By withholding her attention from these students who do not raise their hands, she is eliminating this behavior through operant extinction.

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Operant extinction involves withholding a reinforcement that was previously given for a behavior, which causes the behavior to decrease over time. In this case, the reinforcement is the teacher's attention, and by not responding to students who don't follow the expected behavior of raising their hands, the teacher is effectively using operant extinction to decrease the occurrence of that behavior.

A Teacher Does Not Respond to the Students Who Call