Emma only slept for 3 hours last night. During math class today,
the teacher kept asking her questions. She got annoyed and
responded, "Shut up!" Based on this scenario, select the best
answer.
Hint: Consider the role of motivating operations in evoking behavior.
Does the lack of sleep function as an EO that increases the
reinforcing value of a particular consequence?
All are correct.
The lack of enough sleep evoked her response, "Shut up!"
Because the response was likely evoked by a motivating operation, the
lack of sleep, the response itself was not maintained by a reinforcer.
Reinforcement would not affect the response in the future in this case.
Enough sleep in this case would likely act as an EO that evokes correct
compliant responses.
