Bill hates to clean up after dinner.One night,he volunteers to bathe the dog before cleaning u
A)Bill will start cleaning up the kitchen before he bathes the dog.
B)Bill's wife has positively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
C)Bill's wife has negatively reinforced him for bathing the dog.
D)Bill will never bathe the dog again.

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Negative reinforcement is the removal of an unpleasant stimulus to increase the likelihood of a behavior being repeated. In this scenario, Bill dislikes cleaning up after dinner, so by volunteering to bathe the dog instead, he is removing that unpleasant task and is therefore being negatively reinforced. The fact that Bill is volunteering to do this task suggests that he is trying to avoid cleaning up after dinner.

Bill Hates to Clean Up After Dinner