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Because Jake, the team's starting, star center, is late to basketball practice, Coach Peterson sits him out for the first quarter of the next game. Jake is on time for the rest of the season. Coach Peterson has used...

A) Positive reinforcement
B) Negative reinforcement
C) Extinction
D) Punishment

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Final answer:

Coach Peterson used negative punishment by benching Jake for being late, effectively reducing his tardiness.

Step-by-step explanation:

Coach Peterson has used negative punishment by sitting Jake out for the first quarter of the next game. Negative punishment involves the removal of a pleasant stimulus (in this case, playing time during the game) to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior (being late to practice). After this intervention, Jake was on time for the rest of the season, which indicates that the negative punishment was effective in reducing the behavior of being late.

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