Delores Could See a Sock on the Floor Behind the Clothes

Multiple Choice

Delores could see a sock on the floor behind the clothes dryer. She straightened out a wire clothes hanger, fashioned a hook on the end, and used it to fish the sock out from behind the dryer. Using operant conditioning terminology, straightening out the wire hanger and poking it behind the dryer would be the _____ and the retrieved sock would be the _____, assuming this increased Delores' use of the clothes wire to retrieve socks in the future.

A) conditioned response; conditioned stimulus
B) unconditioned response; unconditioned stimulus
C) primary reinforcer; conditioned reinforcer
D) operant; reinforcing stimulus