What type of reinforcement occurs when you turn on windshield wipers to remove rain from your view?

The correct answer is negative reinforcement. This concept involves the removal of an unpleasant stimulus, which, in this scenario, is the rain obstructing your visibility. When you turn on the windshield wipers, you eliminate the interference of the rain on your view, thereby enhancing your ability to see while driving.

In negative reinforcement, the focus is on the behavior that takes place to reduce or avoid the negative condition. In this case, activating the windshield wipers leads to clearer visibility, thus reinforcing the action of using the wipers next time it rains. This strengthens the likelihood of the behavior being repeated in similar situations where visibility is compromised by rain.

The other options do not apply because positive punishment would involve adding something unpleasant to decrease a behavior, negative punishment would involve taking away a pleasant stimulus, and conditioned response refers to learned reactions in classical conditioning rather than the context of reinforcement in this example.