The withdrawal of a harmful thing from the environment in response to a positive action on the part of the subject is called in operant conditioning.

Answer

Negative Reinforcement

Explanation:

Negative reinforcement is the process in which a behavior is strengthened by stopping or removing the negative outcome.

It simply means to turn a negative action to a positive action.

The withdrawal of a harmful thing from the environment in response to a positive action on the part of the subject is called NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT in operant conditioning, it means removing of a harmful thing from the environment by turning those harmful thing to something that is harmless that is from negative to positive or from bad to good.

Example parents can use negative reinforcement to motivate and change their children behavior.

Negative reinforcement

Explanation:

Negative reinforcement is the removal of something unpleasant. It us use to encourage a certain behavior.Negative reinforcement can also be define as Stopping or avoiding a harmful condition.

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