Charles Catania Identified Three Characteristics That Define Reinforcement

question 68

Multiple Choice

Charles Catania identified three characteristics that define reinforcement. These include all of the following except _______.

• A) a behavior must have a consequence
• B) the consequence of the behavior must be positive
• C) a behavior must increase in strength
• D) the increase in strength must be the result of the behavior's consequence

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Definitions:

Successful Operations

Activities or series of activities within a process which achieve the intended goals or objectives efficiently and effectively.

Poisson Approximation

A statistical technique used to approximate the probabilities of events with a very low probability over a large number of trials.

Binomial Random Variable

A type of random variable that takes the number of successes in a fixed number of trials of a binomial experiment, where each trial results in a success or failure, with the probability of success being the same for all trials.

Cumulative Binomial Probabilities

The sum of the probabilities of obtaining all outcomes up to a specified point in a binomial distribution.