Carena has a bad habit of biting her fingernails and pulling at her cuticles until her fingers bleed and have sores. Her therapist is teaching her how not to bite and pick at her fingernails using various learning principles. Her therapist is using
a. behavior modification.
b. humanistic therapy.
c. psychoanalysis.
d. existential therapy.
A
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a. show the clear benefit of b. have not yet been performed to determine the effects of c. reveal that many factors appear to influence the impact of d. show the harm that is definitely caused by
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a. it takes less time. b. it exposes the individual to the fear-evoking stimuli all at once. c. the process of relaxation and gradual exposure to varied forms of the feared stimuli is more pleasant. d. the client is not exposed to the feared stimuli.
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a. whether a student will be appropriate for special education programs b. the intelligence of children from other cultures c. information on a student's characteristics, such as health status and socioeconomic background d. the effects of diversity on a typical classroom environment