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camerons cat has learned that she can be very annoying in order to get cameron to feed her, in order to get her to stop being annoying. camerons cat is using what type of operant conditioning on cameron?
negative reinforcement
positive reinforcement
negative punishment
positive punishment
Positive reinforcement involves adding a pleasant stimulus to increase a behavior. Here, the cat's annoying behavior (unpleasant to Cameron) leads to getting fed (pleasant for the cat). Cameron feeds the cat to stop the annoyance, which is the cat using positive reinforcement on Cameron. Negative reinforcement is the removal of an aversive stimulus to increase a behavior. Negative and positive punishment involve decreasing a behavior by either removing a pleasant or adding an aversive stimulus respectively.
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