A rat learned to press a bar to turn off a mild shock it was receiving through the floor of its cage.In this case, bar pressing was
A) classically conditioned.
B) learned through negative reinforcement.
C) learned through punishment.
D) a positively reinforced motor skill.

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The rat learned to press the bar to turn off the mild shock it was receiving, which means that bar pressing behavior was reinforced by the removal of an aversive stimulus (the shock). This is an example of negative reinforcement.

A Rat Learned to Press a Bar to Turn Off