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#1. A local wildlife park posts numerous signs stating, ‘Do Not Feed the Wildlife.’ A park visitor, who has never experienced any direct negative consequences from feeding animals (e.g., never bitten, fined, or seen an animal become ill), strictly adheres to this rule every time they visit the park. This visitor’s consistent behavior of not feeding the wildlife is best described as
The text explicitly differentiates between contingencyshaped and rulegoverned behavior Contingencyshaped behavior occurs due to direct exposure to the natural consequences of ones actions the behavior has been maintained because the contingencies actually occurred In contrast rulegoverned behavior is controlled by a verbal statement known as a rule which describes a contingency In this scenario the visitor has never experienced the negative consequences eg being bitten by an alligator in the texts example or being finedinjured in this questions example that would shape their behavior through direct experience Instead their behavior of not feeding the wildlife is maintained by the verbal rule conveyed by the sign Do Not Feed the Wildlife This rule prevents the contingency from happening making the behavior rulegoverned rather than contingencyshaped The sign functions as a rule not merely a physical prompt that evokes a response nor is the behavior solely driven by a warning in the behavioral sense but by the explicit rule provided
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