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#1. A two-year-old child successfully used phrases like ‘water please’ to access water, which served as a primary reinforcer for this vocal behavior. Subsequently, the child started taking water from others without asking. The text describes this as the child ‘was able to obtain the tangible the water without actually having to speak so that functional Behavior got reinforced instead of the sentences.’ What principle of behavior most accurately describes what occurred in this situation?

A) The child’s language skills underwent regression due to a lack of maintenance programming.

B) The child’s communication attempts were inadvertently punished, leading to a suppression of vocal requests.

C) A functionally equivalent, undesirable behavior was inadvertently reinforced because it produced the same reinforcer.

D) The child’s stealing behavior was reinforced by the attention received from the person whose water was stolen.

The text explicitly states gaining the water reinforced a functionally equivalent Behavior yes the behavior we want is speaking in sentences the behavior that reinforced was stealing the water both behaviors Grant access to the water but the wrong Behavior was reinforced This illustrates the principle of functionally equivalent behavior where different behaviors can serve the same function in this case obtaining water When stealing provided access to the water it was reinforced thus making it more likely to occur in the future even though asking for water was the desired behavior The problem behavior stealing replaced the desired behavior speaking because it was inadvertently reinforced by producing the same outcome Options A and B are explicitly dismissed in the text no indication of that Option D is incorrect because the primary reinforcer for the stealing behavior as described was obtaining the tangible water not attention from others

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