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Which type of behaviorism rejects the study of verbal behavior and private events?

Identify the example(s) of behavior below: X = An amoeba is swimming toward warmer water Y = Bob is swimming toward the shore

Which of the following statements is not correctly phrased?

The tendency of a stimulus to elicit a reflex response shortly after the elicitation of that response by a different stimulus is:

Omnibus terms:

A property of behavior is

Billy “threatened to hurt his brother” 3 times in one hour.   This number, “3 times in an hour” represents a dimensional quantity whose measurement is always given as [response cycles]/[time] – (which can also be phrased as: “response cycles per unit of time”).  This dimensional quantity is:

When a motivating operation decreases the value of a consequence to function as an effective form of reinforcement we term that an:

Byron beats up kids who are walking to school, and takes their lunch money.  He only does this with kids who are smaller than he is, not if the kid is bigger.   In the past, he has always been able to get the money from small kids, but not from big kids, who have sometimes beat Byron up. Byron’s physical assaults and stealing behavior, being reliably evoked in the presence of a small kid walking alone to school, exemplifies which of the following principles of behavior? 

An unconditioned reflex is best defined as: