Your parrot often squawks for hours at a time. A stimulus control procedure for eliminating this tendency is to:
A) reinforce squawking only when you provide a signal for the bird to do so.
B) reinforce squawking on a CRF schedule.
C) reinforce squawking on an intermittent schedule.
D) ignore the bird for several days, whether it squawks or not.

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Reinforcing squawking only when a specific signal is given teaches the parrot to squawk only in response to that signal, thereby reducing random or excessive squawking by placing it under stimulus control.

Your Parrot Often Squawks for Hours at a Time