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Sofia does not like eating vegetables. To ensure that she eats vegetables, her mother offers her an extra helping of dessert every time Sofia finishes her vegetables. In the context of behaviorism, this is known as____

A. reinforcement
B. conclusion
C. training
D. hypothesis

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Answer: (A) Reinforcement

Step-by-step explanation:

A reinforcement is the term which is used to refers to the psychological behavior that helps in strengthening the future of an organisms by measuring the various types of factors such as high magnitude, behavior and the short latency.

According to the given question, Sofia's other offers her extra dessert when she finishes vegetables and this type of behaviorism is refers to the reinforcement effect.

Therefore, Option (A) is correct answer.

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