To prevent your children from swimming in their pool when you are not home, you don't allow them to stay home alone when you are not there. If you send them to the neighbor's house instead, you are using ____________.
A) negative punishment
B) negative reinforcement
C) positive punishment
D) positive reinforcement

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Negative punishment is the removal of a pleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior. In this case, the children are not allowed to stay home alone (a pleasant stimulus) in order to prevent them from swimming in the pool (an undesirable behavior).

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