B.F. Skinner appears to have discovered the partial reinforcement effect when he was running a simple conditioning experiment, ran low on food pellets, and began reinforcing only a percentage of responses he otherwise would have reinforced 100% of the time. This is an example of:
A) capitalizing on a paradoxical incident
B) serendipity
C) reasoning by analogy
D) the hypothetico-deductive method
B
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