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Dr. Skarzinski uses a Skinner box to record the frequency with which rats press a level to earn a pellet of food. Which of the following is a risk associated with this data-gathering technique?
A) It is impossible to know whether the rat truly pressed the level as many times as the recording device indicates.
B) The box is designed to provide only food and not water, and this is dangerous.
C) The rat may die of starvation because in such a procedure the rats are not regularly monitored by people.
D) Dr. Skarzinski may miss interesting behaviors that the box is not designed to record.
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