You're a manager at a car dealership in Santa Monica. Your employees are supposed to work (i.e., stay in the office) until 6pm on weekdays, but you notice that most of them leave work at 4:30pm in order to go to the beach and enjoy themselves. If your goal is to have a workplace where every employee works until 6pm, describe how you would achieve this goal using: a. Positive reinforcement b. Negative punishment c. Negative reinforcement d. Positive punishment (NOTE: Your responses for 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d can be one sentence each)

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3. You're a manager at a car dealership in Santa Monica. Your employees are supposed to work (i.e., stay in the office) until 6pm on weekdays, but you notice that most of them leave work at 4:30pm in order to go to the beach and enjoy themselves. If your goal is to have a workplace where every employee works until 6pm, describe how you would achieve this goal using:

a. Positive reinforcement

b. Negative punishment

c. Negative reinforcement

d. Positive punishment

(NOTE: Your responses for 3a, 3b, 3c, and 3d can be one sentence each)

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