A high school senior gets detention after school and is 15 minutes late for volleyball
practice. The coach spends 10 minutes screaming at the senior in front of her teammates,
delaying practice and making everyone else jittery and nervous.
This displays which
problem with punishment?
(a) getting punished in two ways - serving detention, then being yelled at - is
too confusing for either to be effective
(b) human beings can easily "tune out" punishment
(c) it can be difficult to establish exactly what is the contingency between a
response and punishment because the punishment may be associated with
showing up rather than being late
(d) punishment extinguishes the undesired response
C
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