If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might leave every time she started talking about him, saying that you just remembered that you had to be somewhere.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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Leaving every time she starts talking about her boyfriend can be seen as a form of negative punishment because you are taking away something (your presence) in response to her behavior (talking about her boyfriend) with the intention of decreasing that behavior in the future.

If You Wanted Your Best Friend to Spend Less Time