Your spouse withdraws attention from you each time you begin criticizing her cooking. Eventually, you stop criticizing your spouse’s cooking. The withdrawal of attention can be categorized as:

The withdrawal of attention can be categorized as: punishment.

Explanation:

A punishment can be defined as a procedure to decrease the frequency of a behavior, it is a process in which a stimulus is given after the presentation of a behavior causing the decrease in the probability that it will occur again, that is, a punishment is everything that causes a behavior to stop being carried out or that leads to a decrease in the frequency of occurrence of said behavior.

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