Under what circumstances will a reinforcer make the target response more likely to occur again?
a) if it is a primary reinforcer
b) if it is a positive reinforcer
c) if it is a negative reinforcer
d) regardless of whether it is a positive or negative reinforcer, a reinforcer makes a response more likely to occur.
D
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a. talk or gesture. b. display facial expressions. c. understand and interpret facial expressions. d. form an autonomous attachment with their caregivers.
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a. it may involve a combination of classical conditioning and operant conditioning. b. the reinforcement of certain behaviors must occur in order for insight to emerge. c. it was not due to the trial-and-error learning that Thorndike had studied. d. learning a task and later performing it well requires practice. e. it only occurs in a few members of the primate species.