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The frequency with which students completed problems decreased after their teacher stopped rewarding completed problems with candy. This observation is an example of which phenomenon

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"Extinction" is the correct approach.

Step-by-step explanation:

  • Fundamental learning or educational mechanism that emerges that whenever historically operant conditioning is lowering in frequency as well as ultimately disappearing is considered as an extinction.
  • Throughout psychological research, extinction implies the reduction of such a conditioned stimulus or reflex.

So that the given scenario would be an example of extinction.

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