By completing rituals, individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder believe they can neutralize the threat of something bad. This behavior is maintained through which of the following behavioral mechanisms?
a. positive reinforcement
b. extinction
c. stimulus discrimination
d. negative reinforcement

d. negative reinforcement.

Explanation:

The word reinforcement is used in psychology to refer to anything that reinforces or increases the likelihood of a particular response. Negative reinforcement means removing something to improve reaction. In other words, eradicating a negative stimulus would improve and increase the chances that a particular response would cease to exist.

the first one is d and the second a

levels of production can be increased by technology while holding labor and capital constant, because increased technology makes the production process more efficient. subsequently, the lras curve is almost a vertical line, that can shift to the right, with an increase in technology.

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the lras curve is a vertical line at an output level that represents the number of goods and services a nation can produce over a sustained period using all of its productive resources as efficiently as possible with all of the current technology available to it.

the production possibilities frontier (ppf) is a graphical device that is used for economic analysis of production decisions because the ppf measures the maximum possible combinations of two goods that an economy is capable of producing with its currently available resources and technology.