Juan likes to play video games, but he also needs to increase his exercise time. So, he decides to play a video game only 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 Premack principle suggests that more probable behaviors (playing video games) can serve as reinforcers for less probable behaviors (exercising), when the more probable behavior is contingent upon the performance of the less probable one.

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