Question

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?

Answer 1

Extinction Behavior is the type exhibited here

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