In both positive and negative reinforcement:
a. a stimulus is applied to decrease a target behavior
b. a target behavior is reinforced to increase it
c. an unpleasant stimulus is applied to a target behavior
d. an innate stimulus/response pattern is conditioned
B
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Administrative regulations are:
a. Rules that unions negotiate with top management. b. Rules that top management issues to guide the implementation of a policy. c. Rules that government agencies issue to guide the implementation of a policy. d. Rules that influence agency missions and goals.
Groups that provide support, education, growth, therapy, and socialization are best referred to
as: A) Task groups B) Psychological groups C) Treatment groups D) T-groups
Positive reinforcement is the main technique employed in:
a. the token economy. b. aversive therapy. c. cognitive behavior therapy. d. modeling.
Some systematic reviews have found a specific treatment (e.g., cognitive behavioral therapy) to be more effective than another treatment (e.g., psychodynamic therapy) in the treatment of depression, but the size of these differences has been found to be rather small. What conclusion does this finding support?
A. This finding does not support the Dodo Bird Verdict because it found that a treatment was more effective than another treatment on a given target behavior. B. This finding supports the Dodo Bird Verdict because the superiority of one treatment over the other was small. C. This finding is not relevant to the Dodo Bird Verdict. D. This finding supports the Dodo Bird Verdict because it found one treatment to be superior to another.