If a pigeon working on two concurrent schedules allocates more of its time to the task that provides the greater relative rate of reinforcement than would be predicted by the empirical matching law, we call this

a. sensitivity.
b. oversensitivity.
c. overmatching.
d. undermatching


Ans: c

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