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Planning or arranging a student's environment in order to predict the consequences of the student's behaviour is referred to as

APrompting
BReinforcement
CShaping
DStimulus control ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Stimulus control
Explanation

Arranging a student's environment so that the consequences of behaviour can be predicted is called stimulus control.

Here a particular stimulus reliably sets the occasion for a response and its expected outcome.

Prompting is giving an added cue that helps trigger a desired response, not arranging the whole environment.

Reinforcement strengthens a response by following it with a consequence, a different operant procedure.

Shaping builds a new behaviour by reinforcing successive approximations towards it.

Stimulus control comes from Skinner's operant conditioning, where a discriminative stimulus signals when a response will be reinforced.

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