Shabani, Carr, and Petursdottir (2009) Found That Children Trained to Respond

Multiple Choice

Shabani, Carr, and Petursdottir (2009) found that children trained to respond to buttons associated with different response efforts but the same reinforcer would respond first to the lowest-effort response, then to the medium-effort response option, and finally the high-effort response option, when the reinforcer was no longer delivered. This is an example of:

A) Respondent behavior
B) An abolishing operation
C) A motivating operation
D) A response hierarchy