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.

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The conditioned emotional response generalizing to another behavior would not explain the return of the original bad behavior.

A Child Is Punished and Temporarily Stops His or Her