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pragya sharda

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Why does behavior modification focus on changing current environmental variables rather than past events to change behavior?
 
  What will be an ideal response?

Question 2

Extinction of a problem behavior will be more rapid when the behavior had been reinforced on a(an) ____________ reinforcement schedule.
 
  a. fixed interval
 b. continuous
 c. variable interval
  d. intermittent


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choc0chan

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Reply #1 on: Jun 21, 2018
Answer to Question 1

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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Reply 2 on: Jun 21, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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