A student officer in a campus organization adopted an ABA design to test whether rewarding club members with beer and chips will encourage them to increase their attendance.Assume that "A" in the design represented no reward,and "B" represented provision of beer and chips.What should the student conclude if attendance improved following "B",but returned to its original level at the end of the experiment?
A) There is a carryover effect of the reward.
B) The improvement was due to a variable that was confounded with the reward.
C) The reward had an effect on behavior.
D) The improvement in behavior was due to time or maturation effects.

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The improvement in attendance during phase "B" when rewards were given, followed by a return to original attendance levels when the rewards were removed in the subsequent "A" phase, indicates that the reward (beer and chips) had an effect on behavior.

A Student Officer in a Campus Organization Adopted an ABA