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sjones

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Behaviorists use the term operant conditioning. Which of the following BEST represents the meaning of operant conditioning?
 
  a. process of modifying behavior by providing rewards for desired behavior
  b. punishing children with consequences for bad behavior, and leaving good behavior alone
  c. process by which the operator or parent conditions a child's behavior by repetition
  d. letting the child be the operator or person in control in safe situations

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When providing care to a patient, the psychiatricmental health nurse is implementing the therapeutic use of self. The nurse is applying the concepts based on the work of which individual?
 
  A) Hildegarde Peplau
  B) Florence Nightingale
  C) Dorothea Dix
  D) Sigmund Freud


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Reply #1 on: Jul 19, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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According to Skinner, operant conditioning involves modifying behavior by providing rewards. The rewards will result in increasing situations of positive behavior.

Answer to Question 2

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sjones

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Reply #2 on: Jul 19, 2018
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Reply #3 on: Jul 19, 2018
No problemo


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