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despite the physicians encouragement, a 45 year old man stops his exercise program and begins to gain weight. when asked why stopped he says, it just made me feel too uncomfortable. the mechanism causig this man to stop exercising would be best described as which of the following
a. extinction to a classically conditioned response
b. extinction of a positive operant response
c. negative reinforcement
d. punishment of an instrumental response
e. withdrawl of a secondary reinforcement
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| gpsbrar
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b
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| sturge_weber
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the ans is d
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| sturge_weber
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well the stimulus is being uncomfortable and the response stops, and hence it becomes punishment...
well thats what kaplan says
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ummmm... tricky... Thanks for the correct answer.
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