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A motivating operation is an antecedent condition, operation, or stimulus that is relevant to the ___ of a consequence.

Which of the following statements is false regarding Thorndike’s work on the law of effect?

I walk to the sink to get a glass of water.  I open the refrigerator to get a bottle of water.  When I finish drinking the water in my glass, the waiter fills it again with water.  These responses all share a common…

A procedure based on the principle of negative punishment, where a response starts a timer and while the timer is running, the organism cannot access specific appetitive stimuli is called:

The scientific methodology used to discover most of the basic principles of behavior is also known as:

Select an example of an intraverbal response:

Ms. Smith asks Shelby what the ASL sign for “cut” is, and he makes the sign for “cut”. Shelby’s response is:

Which of the following is a type of codic?

The temporal contiguity between two stimuli (presented just before a behavior) is such that there is almost no time between the presentation of stimulus one and stimulus two.  This can result in which of the following?

In the respondent conditioning paradigm, behavior-altering stimuli always function in which of the following ways?