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Destiiny22

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Jolene does not turn in her homework regularly. The teacher is particularly concerned because without regular practice she will fall behind and she is a talented student in math. Jolene is given a token for every homework assignment she completes. When she has eight tokens, she gets two bonus points on her math average. She is now doing her homework regularly. This displays which type of operant conditioning?
 
  a. Positive reinforcement
  b. Negative reinforcement
  c. Presentation punishment
  d. Removal punishment

Question 2

Mr. Lynch has always used his mean face to stop undesirable behavior in his first graders. However, even though he looks at Tommy with this face each time Tommy talks out of turn, Tommy is talking more than ever now. For Tommy the mean face is apparently a:
 
  a. positive reinforcer.
  b. negative reinforcer.
  c. presentation punisher.
  d. conditioned stimulus.



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Answer to Question 1

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