A positive reinforcement strengthens desirable behavior. Smoking a cigarette following a stressful experience that happened early in the day for a client:

a. is a negative reinforcement that strengthens or reduces anxiety
b. serves as a “bad” consequence of stress
c. occurred five hours after the client arrives home
d. is a positive reinforcement


Ans: a

Social Work & Human Services

You might also like to view...

Emotionally-focused therapeutic efforts are:

a. an outgrowth of humanistic therapies b. highly cognitive by design c. based on object relations theory d. an outgrowth of first-order cybernetics

Social Work & Human Services

Can you have a stable trend if the line made up of linked data points is continuously up and down? Draw a diagram indicating your answer

yes or no?

Social Work & Human Services

Questions used during the engagement phase should be closed-ended

a. True b. False

Social Work & Human Services

Sullivan (1992) was one of the first theorists to apply what perspective to the area of chronic mental illness?

a. empowerment perspective b. strengths perspective c. collective encouragement perspective d. humanistic perspective

Social Work & Human Services