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Your cat keeps attacking your house plants.  To make the cat stop, you start to spray her with water whenever she starts to chew on them.   Eventually your cat stops attacking the vegetation in your home.  What type of learning has taken place?答案选项组positive punishmentpositive reinforcementnegative reinforcementnegative punishment

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Your cat keeps attacking your house plants.  To make the cat stop, you start to spray her with water whenever she starts to chew on them.   Eventually your cat stops attacking the vegetation in your home.  What type of learning has taken place?答案选项组positive punishmentpositive reinforcementnegative reinforcementnegative punishment

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The type of learning that has taken place is positive punishment. This is because you added an unpleasant stimulus (spraying water) to decrease a behavior (cat attacking house plants).

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