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Charlie

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Describe how the use of punishment can be negatively reinforcing.
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Eric's basketball coach is helping him improve his passing skills. The coach teaches Eric how to throw a one-handed pass, a two-handed pass, and a bounce pass so that Eric will have a variety of passes he can throw when he is being guarded during a game. Which strategy for promoting generalization is the coach using with Eric?
 
  a. teaching a range of functionally equivalent responses
 b. incorporating common stimuli
 c. reinforcing occurrences of generalization
 d. incorporating a variety of relevant stimulus situations in training



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Answer to Question 1

When punishment is used, it results in an immediate decrease in the problem behavior. If the behavior that is decreased by punishment is aversive to the person using punishment, the use of punishment is negatively reinforced by the termination of the aversive behavior. As a result, the person is more likely to use punishment in the future in similar circumstances.

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Charlie

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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


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