A teacher decides to use extinction on a child’s behavior of complaining when he is asked to work on assignments. The teacher conducts a functional assessment to determine which events might be maintaining the behavior. In this case the teacher is considering whether she can:

The correct answer will be "identify the reinforcer ".

Explanation:

The term 'reinforcer' is possibly known to teachers throughout the ABA community. A reinforcer should be something that represents the probability of occurrence of a particular event, action, or reaction. Much of the moment we are concerned with positive encouragement at ABA (contributing something more to improve behavior as well as a response).

So that the above would be the correct answer.