One of your fellow team members at work is continually disrupting the team's work with jokes and general horseplay. You hope that by ignoring him he will stop this senseless behavior. You are attempting to use which reinforcement tool?
A) Extinction
B) Positive reinforcement
C) Negative reinforcement
D) Avoidance learning
E) Punishment

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Extinction is the reinforcement tool that involves ignoring the behavior that is being exhibited with the hope of reducing or eliminating it. In this case, by ignoring the disruptive behavior of the team member, the hope is that he will stop the horseplay. Positive reinforcement rewards good behavior, negative reinforcement removes unwanted behavior by removing the aversive stimulus, avoidance learning involves learning to avoid a negative outcome, and punishment aims to decrease behavior by adding an aversive stimulus.

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