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With a dependent group contingency, all members of the group must meet the criterion before any members of the group contact reinforcement. For example, when all the students complete their end of semester course evaluations and submit their proof, everyone can earn an extra credit point on their competency assessment (i.e., final exam).

Which of the following are considerations for reinforcement?

If food is being used as a reinforcer, food deprivation exemplifies the concept of an , while food ingestion (i.e., satiation) exemplifies the concept of an abolishing operation.

Both fixed ratio and fixed interval schedules of reinforcement will produce which of the following?

Like reinforcement, punishment has a discriminative stimulus which signals to the individual that engagement in the behavior is likely to contact punishment due to previous learning history.

Which of the following are examples of tokens used in token reinforcement systems? (Select all that apply.)

Michelle is going to conduct a preference assessment with her client at the beginning of her session. She gathers some of the toys the client was interested in during free play time the day before. During the preference assessment, Michelle presents two toys at a time. She has the client select an item. After the client makes a selection, she allows them to play with it for a little bit. Then she removes the toy and presents a new pair of toys. She repeats this process until all the toys have been paired together. Which preference assessment is Michelle conducting?

Which of the following describes an avoidance contingency?

The small-particle aerosol generator (SPAG) produces a small monodisperse aerosol by particle evaporation in a glass drying chamber. This aerosol generator is used for which of the following medication(s)?

Determine the domain of the following function.