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 behaviour.However,the child soon goes back to acting badly.All of the following reasons help explain why this occurred EXCEPT:

A) "punishment" has a more complex job (weaken and extinguish) than reinforcement and therefore has increased odds of failure.
B) punishment is known to only temporarily suppress or inhibit a behaviour.
C) the "bad" behaviour may be affected by type of spontaneous recovery.
D) the conditioned emotional response to the punishment has generalized to another behaviour.