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nevelica

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What is the difference between the baseline and intervention conditions?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

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Criteria for Anorexia Nervosa include the following except:
 
  a. Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85 percent of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85 percent of that expected)
  b. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight
  c. Intense enjoyment while eating and purging the food
  d. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weigh
  e. In postmenarcheal females, amenorrhea, i.e., the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles (A woman is considered to have amenorrhea if her periods occur only following hormone, e.g., estrogen, administration.)



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Answer to Question 1

Baseline is the condition in which behavior is assessed without intervention procedures being in effect. Intervention is the condition in which the researchers attempt to alter the target behavior by systematically changing variables that precede or follow the behavior, such as the prompts, the instruction, or reinforcement.

Answer to Question 2

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