Emanuel is trying to get his daughter to stop biting her nails. His plan is to ignore his daughter’s nail biting, but praise her at every 10-minute interval in which she does not bite her nails. Gradually, Emanuel plans to lengthen the amount of time between praise. If Emanuel’s method is successful, the disappearance of nail biting would be considered which of the following?
asked May 4, 2017 in Education by Abby99
a. Extinction
b. Punishment
c. Negative reinforcement
d. Modeling

But on an april morning in 1959, i heard a mother of four, having coffee with four other mothers in a suburban development fifteen miles from new york, say in a tone of quiet desperation, “the problem.” and the others knew, without words, that she was not talking about a problem with her husband, or her children, or her home. suddenly they realized they all shared the same problem, the problem that has no name. which best describes the connotation of the word “desperation”? negative, because the woman is feeling confused negative, because the woman is expressing hopelessness positive, because the woman is expressing herself positive, because the woman and the mothers are in agreement

The united states economy is one in which producers are generally free to produce what they want and consumers are free to purchase what they desire, so long as no laws are broken. at the same time, however, the government does regulate some aspects of the economy. the u. s. can best be described as which of the following a mixed economy b liberated economy c command economy d market economy

What is the term for the right to vote in elections?