Juan, the behavior analyst, worked with Celia in her new vocational job placement. Her first task was to file the paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinets by size. Juan showed Celia a legal-size document and then also a standard-size document. He gave Celia 20 documents of both sizes and said, “Match the longer legal-sized ones in this stack on the right and place the shorter standard-sized documents in this stack on the left.” Celia matched all the documents and placed them in the appropriate stack by size. Which of the following accounts for Celia’s responding from a radical behaviorist’s perspective?
Group of answer choices
Celia was able to attend to the similarities between the different size documents.
Celia remembered the instructions she was provided by her behavior analyst.
The different size documents exerted common stimulus control over Celia’s sorting.
Through practice, Celia was able to generate the concepts of legal versus standard sizes.