A "habit hierarchy" describes

A) a small number of habitual responses that an individual will display in the vast majority of situations, regardless of situational characteristics.
B) a hierarchy of punishments which are all possible outcomes of a behavior, and which vary along the dimension of undesirability.
C) a learned hierarchy of likelihoods that a person will respond to a situation in a specific way, based on predicted rewards.
D) a hierarchy of rewards which are all possible outcomes of a behavior, and which vary along the dimension of desirability.
E) none of these.


C

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In a published encyclopedia of sexuality, physician Havelock Ellis concluded that

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