Juan likes to play video games, but he also needs to increase his exercise time.So, he decides to only play a video game after he has exercised for 30 minutes.Using video game playing as a reward for exercising illustrates the use of
A) the Premack principle.
B) latent learning.
C) higher-order conditioning.
D) the law of association.

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The use of video game playing as a reward for exercising exemplifies the Premack principle, which states that a more preferred behavior (playing video games) can be used to reinforce a less preferred behavior (exercising) to increase the likelihood of the less preferred behavior occurring in the future.

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