A Child Is Punished and Temporarily Stops His or Her

Multiple Choice

A child is punished and temporarily stops his or her well-established bad behavior. However, the child soon goes back to acting badly. This is probably because __________.

A) the effects of punishment have habituated
B) punishment often only temporarily suppresses or inhibits a behavior
C) the bad behavior has spontaneously recovered
D) the conditioned emotional response to the punishment has generalized to another behavior