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A patient has smoked two packs of cigarettes daily for many years. When the patient does not smoke or tries to cut back, anxiety, craving, poor concentration, and headache result. What does this scenario describe?
Operant Response Rates
The frequency at which an organism performs a behavior in response to a given operant conditioning scenario.
Operant Conditioning
An instructional process that modifies the vigor of behaviors by means of rewards or sanctions.
Reinforcement
In behavioral psychology, a consequence applied to an organism's environment that increases the likelihood of a preceding response being repeated in the future.
Conditioned Taste Aversion
Conditioned taste aversion occurs when an individual associates the taste of a particular food or drink with an unpleasant symptom, leading to a lasting aversion to that item.
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