In an attempt to get inside the bedroom at night, Owly the c…
In an attempt to get inside the bedroom at night, Owly the cat starts tearing and clawing the carpet. To make this behavior less likely to happen in the future, as soon as Anna hears “digging” and meowing, she runs out and starts spraying Owly with water. She hopes that presenting this aversive consequence (getting sprayed by water) after the undesired behavior (clawing at the carpet) would make Owly’s behavior less likely to happen in the future. What type of operant conditioning is Anna practicing?
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