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A farmer is being troubled by coyotes eating his sheep. in an attempt to solve the problem, he kills a sheep and laces its body with a nausea-inducing drug. he leaves the sheep out where he knows the coyotes roam. he hopes they will learn not to eat the sheep. the farmer is attempting to apply the principle of ________ to accomplish this.

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The farmer is using the principle of positive punishment in an attempt to modify the coyotes' behavior through operant conditioning. The attempted conditioning is punishment (as opposed to reinforcement) because it is an attempt to stop a behavior. It is positive (rather than negative) because a stimulus (the nausea-inducing drug) is being added.

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