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#1. A learner is considering asking for a later curfew. When their mother, who usually grants requests for later curfews when in a good mood, enters the room smiling and humming, the learner decides to ask. In this scenario, what is the mother primarily functioning as for the learner’s request to stay out?

An establishing operation (EO) for reinforcement

An abolishing operation (AO) for reinforcement

A discriminative stimulus (SD) for reinforcement

A discriminative stimulus (SD) for punishment

In this scenario the mother by smiling and humming is signaling the availability of reinforcement a later curfew A discriminative stimulus SD is a stimulus in the presence of which a particular response is more likely to be reinforced The learners past history of reinforcement for asking for a later curfew when the mother is in a good mood makes the mothers current demeanor an SD An establishing operation EO would increase the value of the later curfew and evoke the behavior of asking but the motivation to ask for a later curfew is already present An abolishing operation AO would decrease the value of the later curfew and abate the behavior A discriminative stimulus for punishment SDp would signal that asking would likely lead to punishment which is contrary to the situation described

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