Why does behavior modification focus on changing current environmental variables rather than past events to change behavior?
What will be an ideal response?
Although information of past events is useful, knowledge of current controlling variables will be most useful for developing effective behavior modification interventions because you can only change events in the current environment as part of a behavior modification intervention.
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