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6. If you'll recall from this module, a sick social cycle exists when one person's behaviour is being reinforced by positive reinforcement, and the other's is being reinforced by negative reinforcement. (e.g. room-mate nagging you to take the garbage out and you finally do because it stops the nagging - your room-mate's behaviour of nagging is positively reinforced by you taking the garbage out, while your behaviour of taking the garbage out, is negatively reinforced by the nagging stopping.) Look for an example of the sick social cycle in your own environment, and describe it here, being careful to identify the behaviours of interest, the consequences and which person's behaviour was reinforced by positive or negative reinforcement.

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