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AP Psychology
Unit 7 – Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
Topic 7.2
Why might offering excessive rewards for behavior be considered ethically questionable within behavioral theories?
It encourages individuals to prioritize reward-based decisions over ethics-based ones exclusively .
It creates unrealistic expectations about future rewards availability from all behaviors performed well.
It may undermine intrinsic motivation causing dependency on external rewards only.
It promotes competition over collaboration among participants involved in a study or therapy setting .
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