If you watch television every night and want to study more, make it a rule not to turn on the set until you have studied for an hour. Then, lengthen the requirement each week. Using the television watching as a reinforcement for studying is an example of
a. latent learning.
b. the Premack principle.
c. higher order conditioning.
d. the law of association.
B
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