Suppose that every time Johnny asks a question, the teacher answers it. Also suppose that he asks a question in class except when his particular teacher is present. This example demonstrates a(n) ______ between Johnny's question-asking and his teacher answering his questions.

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This scenario describes a functional relationship between Johnny's question-asking and the teacher answering them because the teacher's behavior of answering his questions is dependent on Johnny's behavior of asking questions, and there is a clear and functional connection between the two. It is not a correlation because there is not just a statistical relationship between the two variables, but a direct behavioral connection. It is not a response product because the outcome (the teacher answering) is not a result of Johnny's behavior alone, but a result of the interaction between his behavior and the teacher's. It is not a parametric design because it is not a carefully controlled experimental setup.

Suppose That Every Time Johnny Asks a Question, the Teacher