Brian plans to use antecedent manipulations to increase the amount of exercise he gets. To increase behavior through antecedent manipulation you can the discriminative stimulus and cues for the desirable behavior, an establishing operation for the desirable behavior, and the response effort for the desirable behavior.

Option A

Explanation:

The complete question is

Brian plans to use antecedent manipulations to increase the amount of exercise he gets. To increase behavior through antecedent manipulation you can the discriminative stimulus and cues for the desirable behavior, an establishing operation for the desirable behavior, and the response effort for the desirable behavior.

A) present; arrange; decrease

B) remove; arrange; increase

C) present; eliminate; decrease

D) remove; eliminate; increase

Solution

Option A

A discriminative stimulus is reinforcing in the presence of an external stimuli, hence stimuli must be present to get desired behavior. Manipulation of the antecedent stimuli leads to Antecedent controls which evoke desirable behavior and  

Restrict the competing behaviors. Hence it needs to arranged for desirable behavior.  

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