City Planners Decide to Institute a Program Whereby They Will

question 93

Multiple Choice

City planners decide to institute a program whereby they will occasionally reward random bus riders with $100 gift certificates to the local grocery store.They are attempting to decrease pollution from individual cars by

• A) intermittently reinforcing desirable alternative modes of transportation.
• B) continuously reinforcing pro-environmental attitudes.
• C) moving negative consequences into the present.
• D) immediately punishing undesirable behavior.

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