The Concessionaire for Carnegie Hall Has Developed a Table of Conditional

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Essay

The concessionaire for Carnegie Hall has developed a table of conditional values for the various alternatives (stocking decision)and states of nature (size of crowd).
The concessionaire has no idea what sort of crowd might materialize - it has been decades since the Del Aires last performed together, but there has been a resurgence in interest thanks to a re-release of the classic movie Horror of Party Beach.Determine:
(a)the optimal alternative if the concessionaire is an optimist.
(b)the optimal alternative if the concessionaire is a pessimist.

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Definitions:

Functional Alternative

An alternative method or strategy that achieves the same goal or function as the original.

Differential Reinforcement

A technique used in behavior modification that involves reinforcing desired behaviors while withholding reinforcement for undesired behaviors.

DRO Increasing-Interval Schedule

A DRO schedule that thins or fades the reinforcement by gradually increasing the length of the interval. If the specified interval passes without a target response occurring, reinforcement is delivered and the next interval can be increased by a certain amount of time. If the response does occur, however, the next interval stays the same.

Topographically Incompatible

Refers to behaviors that cannot occur simultaneously because the performance of one behavior physically restricts the other.