If you wanted your best friend to spend less time talking about her boyfriend, you might try frowning every time she started talking about him. In the framework of operant conditioning, your frowning would be:

a. positive reinforcement
b. positive punishment
c. negative reinforcement
d. negative punishment


B

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a. think abstractly. c. use hypothetical thinking. b. reason concretely. d. a and c.

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A. effectiveness of the intervention in clinical practice, including feasibility and cost-effectiveness. B. the rate at which a particular practice is utilized in the mental healthcare system. C. both a and b D. neither a nor b

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