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joesmith1212

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In ____________ conditioning, a response is elicited by an antecedent stimulus, and conditioning involves the pairing of two stimuli.
 
  a. operant
 b. respondent
 c. instrumental
 d. none of these

Question 2

Although smoking has its negative effects on a person's life in the future, why do people continue to smoke?
 
  What will be an ideal response?



shoemake

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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

People continue to smoke because it is immediately reinforcing, not smoking is not reinforced immediately, and the health risks for smoking are not an immediate problem.



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