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For Years,a Local "Greasy Spoon" Diner Had Customers Lining Up

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For years,a local "greasy spoon" diner had customers lining up around the building for breakfast.When the city announced that it was building an off ramp from the highway that would conceivably double his customer traffic,the proprietor was delighted.Having saved enough in previous years,he was certain it could hold him over through the three-month construction.Unfortunately,construction delays continued for an additional six months and the work is still in progress.The best pricing objective at this point for the diner's owner would MOST LIKELY be __________.

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Fixed-interval

A type of schedule in operant conditioning where a response is rewarded only after a specified amount of time has elapsed, leading to a pattern of response.

Variable-interval

Variable-interval describes a schedule of reinforcement where a response is rewarded after an unpredictable amount of time has passed, in operant conditioning.

Classical Conditioning

A method of learning in which two stimuli are consistently associated; the response initially produced by the second stimulus ultimately becomes triggered by just the first stimulus alone.

Extinction

The process through which the conditioned response is weakened by presenting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus, eventually leading to the cessation of the conditioned response.