Rocky is a patient in a psychiatric hospital who throws furniture on the hospital ward. The staff psychologist

successfully suppresses this behavior with punishment. However, Rocky subsequently begins throwing trays.
What phenomenon has occurred?

a. response facilitation
b. punishment contrast
c. response substitution
d. generalized suppression


ANSWER: c

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