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If 10 tokens equal 10 minutes of computer time, what is the unit price? 

When I stop eating meat, I also decreased how often I went out to eat. These are what type of commodity? 

(T/F) Choice between reinforcers and punishers in delay discounting tasks function the exact same. That is, with both type of stimuli, an organism will choose the smaller, more immediate consequence. 

The matching law has been applied to choice situations where the two options differ in ____________. 

(T/F) Smokers performed the same as the control group on delay discounting tasks. 

 What is this? 

Determining how much to tax a certain good or product in order to produce a profit is an example of what domain of behavior analysis (think broad label)? Briefly describe how this application of behavior analysis works.

Describe a typical experiment that produces “learned helplessness” in dogs. What type of responding is observed in these types of experiments?  

If liver and kidney are diseased, excessive amounts of this cannot be properly handled without further organ damage:

A patient would be considered hypoglycemic when their blood glucose falls below: