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#1. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, a young adult named Alex regularly socialized with friends a few times a week. During the peak of the pandemic, strict lockdowns prevented Alex from seeing friends for several months, leading to a significant period of social isolation. Once restrictions eased, Alex immediately began making plans and, for the first two weeks, spent nearly every evening hanging out with friends. This rapid and intense increase in social behavior after a period of deprivation is best understood as an example of which effect of a motivating operation?
Motivating operations MOs have two primary effects valuealtering effects and behavioraltering effects A valuealtering effect refers to an MOs ability to increase or decrease the reinforcing effectiveness of a stimulus A behavioraltering effect refers to an MOs ability to immediately evoke increase the current frequency of or abate decrease the current frequency of behavior that has been previously reinforced by that stimulus In Alexs scenario the prolonged deprivation from social interaction acted as an establishing operation a type of MO that had an evocative behavioraltering effect causing an immediate and strong increase in his social behavior The text supports this by stating your behavior of hanging out with friends was severely altered it was a behavior alternate effect it evoked your behavior of hanging out with your friends 10 nights in a row Functionaltering effects refer to changes in the future probability of behavior as a result of a consequence eg reinforcement punishment not the immediate change in behavior due to an MO An abolishing operation is a type of MO that decreases the current effectiveness of a reinforcer and abates decreases the current frequency of behavior which is the opposite of what is described here
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