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kodithompson

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You just adopted a puppy and want to teach it to fetch the newspaper. What approach would B. F. Skinner advise you to take?
 
  a. Punish the puppy each time it does not fetch the paper
 b. Give the puppy a treat each time it gets a little closer to fetching perfectly
 c. Give the puppy a treat each time it fetches perfectly and not otherwise
 d. Be patient and understand that behavior shaping occurs naturally over developmental stages

Question 2

A patient arrives in your office with a severe fear of spiders. You treat this patient by gradually introducing her to snake images, snake toys, and eventually live snakes in order to show her that nothing bad happened in the presence of these objects. You are using the therapeutic technique called
 
  a. Cognitive therapy
 b. Systematic desensitization
  c. Operant conditioning
 d. Multidimensional therapy


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31809pancho

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b


kodithompson

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Reply 2 on: Jun 22, 2018
YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

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:D TYSM

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