Question

17. Punishment is effective only when it weakens :
(A) Undesirable Response
(B) Desirable Response
(C) Positive Response
(D) All of these​

Answer 1

Punishment is effective only when it weakens negative response.

• Negative punishment simple means to take something away.
• Negative punishment is an important psychological concept in operant conditioning.
• In negative punishment, we simple take something good or desirable away so that a particular behavior by the person is stopped.
• For example, when two children fight for  toy, we simply take the toy away.

The question is not complete, the complete question is:

Punishment is effective only when it weakens :

(A) Undesirable Response

(B) Desirable Response

(C) Positive Response

(D) All of these​

(E) Negative Response