postive or negative punishment?

[yjj8817]

A teenage girl stays out for an hour past her curfew, so her parents ground her for a week.

Is this positive or negative punishment?

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[basophilic]

I'm assuming grounding involves not going out of house, no video game/phone/TV privileges, etc. for the week.
Then parents are removing something positive, so negative punishment

 

[desertrat12]

These are tricky problems. I understand it to be that positive is the addition of something and negative is the removal of something. If is kid is throwing his toy at their sibling a positive punishment would be yelling at the kid, and a negative punishment would be taking the toy away. In the case of grounding, unless the question specifically states that the grounding included the removal of video games, then I would probably consider it to be a positive punishment because there was something new introduced: the "grounding".

** I researched a bit more and I found sources saying it is positive and sources saying it is negative punishment...so, I guess I'm a bit confused as well..

 

[sc4s2cg]

Just to clarify:

Parents revoking cell phone privileges = negative punishment. They took something away.
Parents scolding a child = positive punishment. They added something.

Your scenario depends on what they mean by grounding. Taking away the phone? negative. Requiring an essay? positive.