Your Therapist Friend Has a Dilemma

question 22

Multiple Choice

Your therapist friend has a dilemma.She cannot be available to deliver a reinforcer every time her patients make an appropriate response, but she doesn't want the work she does with them at her office to extinguish between appointments.You suggest

• A)She provide many more training trials at the office than are needed there.
• B)She provide very high value rewards at the office.
• C)She make especially certain to reward every instance of the desired behavior at the office.
• D)She only periodically reward the desired behavior at the office.

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Definitions:

Condorcet Paradox

A situation in social choice theory where collective preferences can be cyclical, even if the preferences of individual voters are not.

Satisficing

A decision-making process that entails searching through the available alternatives until an acceptability threshold is met rather than looking for the best possible solution.

Arrow's Impossibility Theorem

A mathematical theorem demonstrating the impossibility of devising a voting system that simultaneously meets certain fairness criteria.

Rational Maximers

Individuals or entities that aim to achieve the highest possible benefit or utility from their actions, assuming rational decision-making processes.