_________ is characterized by organisms allocating relative rates of behavior based on relative rates of reinforcement.

John flips a switch and his bedroom light always comes on (unless the bulb is burned out).  This refers to (a):

Operant antecedents have the following effects on behavior:

All of the following are characteristics of Applied Behavior Analysis, except:

Cultural selection is always involved in the development of:

Which of the following variables can affect punisher effectiveness? X = Motivating operations Y = Competing reinforcement contingencies Z = The severity of the behavior

This procedure would result in an increase in the frequency of a target behavior

An environmental change in which a stimulus is presented, added, or magnified following a response, that increases or maintains the future frequency of that response:

Marshall curses in his 5th grade class, which lasts 1 hour.  On Monday, he curses 1 time.  On Tuesday, after he curses 1 time again that day, his teacher decides to try a time-out procedure in the corner of the room for 3 minutes whenever he curses. On Friday, he curses 4 times.  This change represents the dimensional quantity of:

All of the following are main contributions of Ivan P. Pavlov, except: