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Tanisha's family loves the Chicago Bulls. Tanisha recently moved to California and now cheers for the Lakers. When she goes home, her family sarcastically jokes with her and makes fun of her new love for the Lakers. This reaction to her behavior is a(n) __________.

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Answer: Punishment behaviour

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Punishment behaviour in operant conditioning:

Punishment behaviour is used in operant conditioning to describe any action that brings changes after a certain behaviour has occured , these changes aim to ensure that the behaviour doesn't occur again in the future.

Unlike positive and negative reinforcement which all work in increasing a behaviour punishment aims at discouraging the unwanted behaviour which people feel it needs to stop for example Tanisha comes back and she now support a different team than her family.Her family isn't happy so they doing all these changes where they sarcastically joke about her in order to discourage her support for the Lakers in the future .

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