A trial begins with presentation of a discriminative stimulus.If the stimulus is a light, a food pellet reinforcer will be set up after 20 seconds and can be earned with a lever press.If the stimulus is a tone, a food pellet reinforcer will be set up after 40 seconds and can be earned with a lever press.Test trials involve recording the subject's responses over 80 non-reinforced seconds.This procedure is called
A)a duration estimation task.
B)a peak procedure.
C)an interval training task.
D)a model-rival technique.

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The described procedure is called the peak procedure, which involves presenting a discriminative stimulus, recording the subject's responses over a non-reinforced interval, and measuring the peak of the response distribution as an estimate of the subject's timing of the expected reinforcement.

A Trial Begins with Presentation of a Discriminative Stimulus