Ms. Jones is a grade 3 teacher who is having some trouble with children misbehaving and disrupting class. Instead of punishing the students who misbehave, she decides to reward good behavior in class by allowing her students an extra recess each Friday if everyone in the class has been good all week. This is an example of:
A)classical conditioning.
B)respondent conditioning.
C)operant conditioning.
D)negative reinforcement.

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This is an example of operant conditioning, where Ms. Jones is using positive reinforcement (extra recess) to encourage good behavior.

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