To prevent your children from swimming in the pool when you are not home, you inform them that they will lose television time for a week if they are caught in the pool when no adults are home. If you actually employ this punishment, you are using ________.
A) negative punishment
B) negative reinforcement
C) positive punishment
D) positive reinforcement

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Negative punishment involves removing a desirable stimulus after a behavior to decrease the likelihood of that behavior occurring again. In this scenario, removing television time (a desirable stimulus) after swimming without supervision (the behavior) is an example of negative punishment.

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