BFSkinner Appears to Have Discovered the Partial Reinforcement Effect When

Multiple Choice

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