Suppose that a young child likes to play with building blocks in the family's den. Sometimes while playing with the blocks she misbehaves. When she does this, her mother and father tell her that she can no longer play with her blocks and that she must go to her bedroom for a while. The behavioural technique that the parents employ as a consequence of their daughter's actions is called
A) positive reinforcement.
B) extinction.
C) negative reinforcement.
D) time-out from positive reinforcement.
E) discrimination.

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The technique used by the parents is called "time-out from positive reinforcement." This involves removing the opportunity to engage in a preferred activity (playing with blocks) as a consequence of misbehavior, which is intended to decrease the likelihood of the misbehavior occurring in the future.

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