If you do your homework and assignments for your OB class just to avoid being yelled at by your professor,you have learned this behavior through the use of:
A)punishment.
B)extinction.
C)negative reinforcement.
D)heuristics.
E)positive reinforcement.

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Negative reinforcement is the process of removing an unpleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior being repeated. In this case, the unpleasant stimulus is being yelled at by the professor and the behavior being reinforced is doing the homework and assignments. Therefore, the student is engaging in this behavior to avoid the unpleasant stimulus, which is an example of negative reinforcement.

If You Do Your Homework and Assignments for Your OB