Maddie comes home too late after her high school party. She loses her driving privileges for two weeks. A month later, Maddie is at another party and she is supposed to be home in a half hour. The loss of driving privileges is a ..... .....

OPERANT CONDITIONING

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Maddie comes home too late after her high school party. She loses her driving privileges for two weeks. A month later, Maddie is at another party and she is supposed to be home in a half hour. The loss of driving privileges is a ____ ____

A	Positive Punisher
B	Negative Punisher
C	Positive Reinforcer
D	Negative Reinforcer

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -In Operant Conditioning Theory, there are essentially four quadrants: Positive Reinforcement, Positive Punishment, Negative Reinforcement, and Negative Punishment.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are two types of consequences: positive (sometimes called pleasant) and negative (sometimes called aversive). These can be added to or taken away from the environment in order to change the probability of a given response occurring again.

Detailed explanation-3: -A child disobeys his parent, and the child gets punished by losing access to electronics. The desired effect of the punishment is that the child will not disobey again. Reinforcement, on the other hand, is a reward or a prize for doing something right.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maddie gets a speeding ticket, and her parents take her car away for 2 weeks. This is an example of what reinforcement schedule? In negative punishment, a desirable object is removed in response to undesirable behavior with the goal of reducing or ending the undesirable behavior.

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AP PSYCHOLOGY

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OPERANT CONDITIONING