Although this is a personal question, we can still provide an example of how you could answer this question.
An example of an unusual family circumstance that affected my achievements in these areas was the divorce of my parents. While the divorce itself was amicable, it still took a toll on me and my ability to concentrate on other matters. Because I was concerned about the future of my family, I could not concentrate at school, and my grades worsened. Moreover, I did not feel like getting involved in extracurricular activities or in my community. It took a long time before I was able to get involved in those activities again.
Answer:
The parents are using punishment to suppress the screaming; their use of punishment is negatively reinforced by the cessation of screaming.
Explanation:
Punishment: In psychology, the term "punishment" is determined as one of the concepts of operant conditioning which was proposed by B. F. Skinner. Punishment referred to any specific changes in an organism's (human beings & animals) environmental surrounding that tends to occur only when a particular response or behavior is being provided and generally reduces the response or behavior to occur again in the future.
Punishment is of two types i.e, negative and positive punishment.
In the question above, the given statement represents the negative punishment (decreases an unwanted behavior by removing a desired thing).
Yes, it prevents anything serious
Airways, roadways, railways, and waterways.