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_________ is characterized by organisms allocating relative rates of behavior based on relative rates of reinforcement.

If Judi sells ten candle warmers at her home-based sales party her distributer will give her an exclusive bonus sample kit.  What type of simple schedule of reinforcement does this exemplify?

All of the following are characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis, except:

This procedure would result in an increase in the frequency of a target behavior

Operant antecedents have the following effects on behavior:

Cultural selection is always involved in the development of:

Which of the following variables can affect punisher effectiveness? X = Motivating operations Y = Competing reinforcement contingencies Z = The severity of the behavior

An environmental change in which a stimulus is presented, added, or magnified following a response, that increases or maintains the future frequency of that response:

Marshall curses in his 5th grade class, which lasts 1 hour.  On Monday, he curses 1 time.  On Tuesday, after he curses 1 time again that day, his teacher decides to try a time-out procedure in the corner of the room for 3 minutes whenever he curses. On Friday, he curses 4 times.  This change represents the dimensional quantity of:

All of the following are main contributions of Ivan P. Pavlov, except: