What Has Been Found in Studies of Response-Outcome Relations and Reinforcement

question 82

Multiple Choice

What has been found in studies of response-outcome relations and reinforcement

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

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Definitions:

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