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An employee makes practical jokes on another employee. To stop the jokes, the "victim" employee stops reacting to them. What behavior shaping was provided here?

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Extinction Behavior is the type exhibited here

Step-by-step explanation:

Extinction behavior:

  • It is a procedure used in "ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis)"
  • This is practiced in order to reduce the occurrences or completely avoid those happenings which are likely to happen again.
  • We can also term that as "removal of an outcome"
  • It increases "behavioral variability"
  • Its actually gradually weakening to solution to reduce the unwanted behavior
  • It's a part of "behavioral psychology"
  • It maximum works in a positive approach only
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