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What is a discriminative stimulus?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Self-management involves the modification of __________ to make the target behavior more likely to occur.
 
  a. antecedents
 b. consequences
 c. alternative behavior
  d. all of these



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Answer to Question 1

Discriminative stimulus is the antecedent stimulus that is present when a behavior is reinforced.

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