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reinforcement
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Broadly defined, a conditioned reinforcer is a once-neutral stimulus that acquires reinforcing function (Hendry, 1969; Hull, 1943; Kelleher & Gollub, 1962; Keller & Schoenfeld, 1950; Williams, 1994).
Thus, in the present experiment, the independent variable was not the toy conditioning procedures; rather it was the presence of a newly conditioned reinforcer for observing.
The strength of conditioned reinforcers as a function of frequency and probability of reinforcement.
 
 
 
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