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To: Jamie153 who wrote (421326)	10/20/2019 8:05:20 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541284

No - the question comprises an inquiry of your knowledge of punishment of a concept. You do know that "punishment" is not about the subject but the behavior. Falling out of a tree when climbing is a punishment in the strict definition. Wikipedia: In operant conditioning, punishment is any change in a human or animal's surroundings that occurs after a given behavior or response which reduces the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future. Do we let the environment passively punish the behavior (as in falling out of a tree when not using appropriate gear) or is it permissible to mediate the probability of punishment of behavior?