A four-year-old child frequently pulled on the dog’s tail to gain attention. To reduce this undesirable behavior, the parent too
k away one hour of television viewing every time the child pulled the dog’s tail. Within one week, the undesirable behavior was significantly reduced. The above scenario illustrates:
Negative punishment is used by Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov. It is part of classical conditioning. In negative punishment something, desirable things have been removed. Positive means to add something but negative means to remove something. Negative punishment is used to modify the irrational behavior of a person or a dog.
Thus in the above context, when a 4-year-old child frequently pulling the tail of the dog to get the attention, parents took away one hour to watch television. So that in the week the child has removed his unwanted behavior. Parents modify their child unwanted behavior.
