Cassie asked her father for a candy bar at the grocery store, and her father bought her the candy bar. If Cassie asks for more candy bars in the future, the candy bar has acted as
A) a discriminative stimulus.
B) a reinforcer.
C) a conditioned response.
D) a conditioned stimulus.

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The candy bar acted as a reinforcer because it was given to Cassie after she asked for it, which increases the likelihood that she will ask for candy bars again in the future. A discriminative stimulus would signal a specific behavior that would be reinforced, but in this case, Cassie simply asked for a candy bar without any prior discriminative stimulus. A conditioned response and conditioned stimulus refer to learned responses to a specific stimulus, but in this scenario, there is no indication that Cassie has learned to associate the candy bar with any specific response.

Cassie Asked Her Father for a Candy Bar at the Grocery