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Learning to perform behaviours that produce positive outcomes and to avoid behaviours that yield negative outcomes is a basic characteristic of
a. stimulus generalization.
b. classical conditioning.
c. operant conditioning.
Correct: In operant conditioning, when one experiences a positive response to a behaviour, it likely increases in frequency. When one experiences a negative consequence after a behaviour, it likely decreases in frequency. In this way, behaviours are affected by the consequences produced by them.
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