Studies of response-outcome relations and reinforcement have found that
a. operant behavior is automatically strengthened when it is followed by desirable consequences.
b. people actively reason out the relations between responses and the outcomes that follow.
c. there are species-specific predispositions to form certain types of associations.
d. on concurrent schedules of reinforcement, organisms emit responses that maximize the total number of reinforcers they will receive.
B
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