In 2008, a Man Was Charged with One Count of Illegally

question 409

Multiple Choice

In 2008, a man was charged with one count of illegally stocking wild animals, a civil offense. State investigators had accused him of bringing 31 wild hogs from Texas to Wisconsin to hunt on his private land, spawning a feral hog population that has caused thousands of dollars in crop damage to hundreds of farms in the region. The marginal external ________ of the man's movement of feral pigs is ________.

• A) costs; negative.
• B) benefits; positive
• C) costs; positive.
• D) benefits; negative

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Definitions:

Shaping

A method used in behavior therapy and training that involves reinforcing successive approximations of a target behavior until the desired behavior is achieved.

Spontaneous Recovery

A phenomenon in psychology where a previously extinguished response re-emerges after a period of no exposure to the conditioned stimulus.

Positive Reinforcer

An event or item that, when presented after a behavior, increases the likelihood of that behavior occurring again.

Negative Reinforcer

A stimulus whose removal after a particular behavior increases the likelihood of that behavior occurring again in the future.