Your dog jumps up on a visitor and you smack him with arolled up new spaper. The next time you have a visitor, your dog doesn't jump on them. This is an example of positive punishment.

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Positive punishment involves adding something unpleasant to decrease a behavior. In this case, the unpleasant stimulus (smack with a newspaper) was added to decrease the behavior of jumping on visitors, which was effective.

Your Dog Jumps Up on a Visitor and You Smack