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What kind of explanation is the following statement? Ida screamed in order to get a brownie. 

To survey the class’ interest for a class party, the teacher asks the students to write down either ‘pizza party’ or ‘ice cream party’ on a slip of paper so that she can tally their votes. Each student’s written response is an example of _____ behavior.

Which of the following branches of behavior analysis is most likely to involve the manipulation of environmental variables to change some arbitrarily chosen behavior:

Respondent stimuli which reliably elicit a reflex response without prior learning are otherwise known as:

Cooper, Heron and Heward (2007) state that science relies on all of the following, except:

“A group of mediators that belong to a trained verbal community” is a phrase that helps define which of the following concepts?

Motivating operations:

Hilary is training Phoenix the dolphin.  If Phoenix flip-jumps after Hilary gives the command to “flip-jump”, Hilary gives Phoenix a fish.  However, if Phoenix flip-jumps, but Hilary has NOT given her the command, Hilary does not give Phoenix a fish.  Whether or not Hilary gives a command to flip-jump is an example of:

Brian finds that he wins more money and plays longer at the blackjack tables, than he does at the slot machines, where he has lost all his money quickly when he has visited casinos. Given this information, Brian’s tendency to sit at the blackjack tables rather than at the slot machines is _________ behavior.

All of the following are types of reinforcement, except: