Read the scenario below and answer the question that follows.Molly catches her dog chewing on her favorite slippers. Molly swats the dog on the nose so that it will not chew her slippers again.Which type of operant conditioning in occurring in the scenario?

Molly adds an unpleasant consequence—a swat on the nose—after the dog chews the slippers, intending to reduce that behavior. Adding a consequence to decrease a behavior is positive punishment, so the correct choice is positive punishment.

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