Herrnstein has applied the matching law to situations where a subject responds on VI schedules of different sizes,but only one schedule is presented at a time.He assumed that if the reinforcement for extraneous behaviors is increased
A)the subject's maximum possible response rate does not change
B)response rate on the VI schedule should decrease
C)both a and b
D)neither a nor b

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Herrnstein's matching law suggests that as reinforcement for alternative (extraneous) behaviors increases, the response rate to the primary variable interval (VI) schedule will decrease, without changing the maximum possible response rate for the subject. This is because the subject's behavior will start to match the distribution of reinforcement among available behaviors.

Herrnstein Has Applied the Matching Law to Situations Where a Subject