If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might try frowning every time she started talking about him.In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:
A)positive reinforcement
B)positive punishment
C)negative reinforcement
D)negative punishment

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Frowning is an aversive stimulus, and using it to decrease the likelihood of a behavior (talking about her boyfriend) is a form of positive punishment.

If You Wanted Your Best Friend to Spend Less Time