Studies of Response-Outcome Relations and Reinforcement Have Found That ​

question 167

Multiple Choice

Studies of response-outcome relations and reinforcement have found that ​

• A)operant behavior is automatically strengthened when it is followed by desirable consequences.
• B)people actively reason out the relations between responses and the outcomes that follow.
• C)there are species-specific predispositions to form certain types of associations.
• D)on concurrent schedules of reinforcement, organisms emit responses that maximize the total number of reinforcers they will receive.

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