Absalom receives a new "Make your own Marker" set for his birthday, and his mother tells him to wait to use it until she can help him. He disobeys her and gets the ink all over his bedroom carpet. Absalom is then punished with a 30-minute timeout, and he loses his Marker Maker kit. Absalom's mother is teaching him through the process of:
a. latent learning.
b. observational learning.
c. operant conditioning.
d. classical conditioning.
Explanation: Operant conditioning is a type of learning and a behavioral technique that uses positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, omission and punishment to produce the adequacy or extinction of conduct.
