You want to stop your kid from eating the heads off of rabbits so you decide to make your kid eat a bunch of heads off of rabbits but they are laced with Tabasco sauce. What is this approach known as?

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Evan Holbrook
Nov 28, 2017

In operant conditioning, positive punishment.

Explanation:

Operant conditioning is a way of learning in which a behavior is strengthened or weakened by certain stimuli (strengthened by reinforcers, weakened by punishments).

In this case, you are applying positive punishment to the kid because you are (1) trying to weaken the behavior with the stimulus (punishment) and (2) you are adding a negative stimuli instead of taking away a positive one (positive punishment vs. negative punishment).

Hope this helps!

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