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What has occurred when there is a decrease in the likelihood or rate of a target response?

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punishment

Punishment is the change in the environment that occurs after a response which decreases the likelihood of the behavior occurring again in the future. This is according to operant conditioning--a learning process where a behavior is altered by reinforcement or punishment.

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