A staff worker at a school for adults who have developmental disabilities used physically aversive consequences to decelerate a client's serious head banging.The worker also began to spank her own children more for their misbehaviors.Into which category of negative side effects does this fall-
A)Avoidance behaviors
B)Perpetuation effects
C)Emotional responses
D)Negative modeling

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Perpetuation effects occur when the use of aversive consequences leads to an increase in the frequency or intensity of the target behavior in other settings or with other people. In this case, the staff worker's use of physically aversive consequences to decelerate the client's head banging led to her spanking her own children more for their misbehaviors.

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