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General Psychology a. Punishment and negative reinforcement are not the same. Punishment can lead to negative reinforcement, for example, if a child is getting spanked that is meant by the parent to decrease a certain child’s behavior, then, the child is receiving punishment. But if the child is getting spanked and then he/she does something to stop the spanking the behavior that stops the shock is considered to be negatively reinforced. During punishment the behavior is apt to decrease but in the second it is going to increase because of the n