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 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:

The correct answer is operant conditioning. 

Operant conditioning (OC) refers to a process by which learning occurs through consequences that can either be positive (reward) or negative (punishment). According to the theory of OC, behaviors followed by punishment are less likely to occur in the future, and behaviors followed by rewards are more likely to occur in the future. In this instance, where Absalom's defiance of mother results in him losing his marker kit and a 30- minute timeout,his mother is teaching him through operant conditioning, and more specifically, through punishment. 

6, 4, 5, 1 are true. the others are false.