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54. Personality
55. Emotions
56. Growth
57. Primary reinforcers
58. Rewarding behavior
59. Punishment
60. Functional analysis
61. Operant conditioning
62. Reinforcer
63. Behavior

A. “Excellent examples of fictional causes to which we commonly attribute behavior”
B. The process of shaping and maintaining a particular behavior by its consequences
C. Related to physical needs and survival
D. Anything that an organism can be observed doing
E. A collection of behavior patterns
F. Ability to minimize adversive conditions and increase the beneficial control of our environment
G. More effective than aversive control in learning new behavior
H. Examination of cause and effect relationships
I. Major impediment to effective learning
J. Any stimulus that follows a response and increases or maintains the probability of that response


54) E 55) A 56) F 57) C 58) G 59) I 60) H 61) B 62) J 63) D

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What will be an ideal response?

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