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Title: Quiz 8
Description: Reframing Health Behavior Change with Behavioral Economics Chap 5
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Created: 2009-10-19
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    • Side 3
    • What does it mean to compensate for income and why is this important?
    • The degree of substitutability between pairs of reinforcers used to evaluate the modifiability of preferences. An organism chooses between responding for reinforcer X and responding for reinforcer Y.
    • What does isocaloric mean?
    • Having similar caloric value
    • Describe the health risks associated with high-fat diets.
    • Children with higher fat diets have higher mean serum levels of total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol. Furthermore there is a lot of research that has linked high fat diets with cardiovascular disease. Also high fat diets in woman have been linked to ovarian cancer
    • What are substitute reinforcers? What aren’t’ they. Or, said another, way what isn’t a critical feature of substitutability?
    • Substitutable reinforcers are those that are functionally similar. Substitutability is not a given property of specific reinforcers. Rather it is a characteristic of the relation between reinforcers.