Even though it will be four years before you graduate, you study and work hard because you know that having the degree will help you obtain a good job. Looking toward this degree helps maintain your hard work through a series of courses even through the reinforcement is delayed for several years. This illustrates

a. serial acquisition.
b. latent learning.
c. response chaining.
d. stimulus control.


C

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