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Punishment should only be used as a last resort or when a behavior is very maladaptive.

Extinction occurs more quickly when the individual has received intermittent reinforcement

A health psychologist suggests that a client’s partner provide praise whenever the client makes healthy eating choices.  This treatment plan uses:

An autistic child engages in rocking behaviors at a steady rate regardless of what his parents do.  Your functional analysis is likely to show that the behavior is caused by:

Decide if each of the following pieces of advice is based on operant conditioning or classical conditioning.

Classical conditioning involves only reflexive behaviors.

Which of the following is the typical order of the behavioral assessment process?

One of the most important parts of the intake process of behavioral assessment is:

A child is first reinforced for spending five minutes working on homework, then ten minutes, then twenty minutes.  This is an example of _____________ shaping.

What is the conditioned stimulus in the bell and pad treatment?