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| the preferred distribution of an organism's activities before an instrumental conditioning procedure is introduced that sets constraints and limitations on response allocation |
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| consummatory-response theory |
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| assumes that species-typical consummatory responses (eating, drinking, etc) are the critical features of reinforcers |
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| relation between how much of a commodity is purchased and the price of the commodity |
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| differential probability principle |
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| assumes that reinforcement depends on how much more likely the organism is to perform the reinforcer response than the instrumental response before an instrumental conditioning procedure is introduced. also known as the premack principle |
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| degree to which prices influences the consumption or purchase of a commodity; if price has a large effect on consumption, then this is high |
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| model of instrumental behavior, according to which participants respond to a response-reinforcer contingency in a manner that gets them as close as possible to their behavioral bliss point |
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| same as differential probability principle |
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| response-deprivation hypothesis |
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| explanation of reinforcement according to which restricting access to a response below its baseline rate of occurrence (response deprivation) is sufficient to make the opportunity to perform that response an effective positive reinforcer |
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