A 21-year-old man presents after a noncontact injury to his…
A 21-year-old man presents after a noncontact injury to his left knee sustained while pivoting during a basketball game. He reports hearing a “pop” followed by immediate swelling and instability. On examination, there is a large knee effusion. When the knee is flexed to 20–30 degrees, anterior translation of the tibia relative to the femur is markedly increased compared with the contralateral limb and has a soft endpoint. Which test should be done to rule in an ACL injury
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[FinA] Marcel yells and curses at his parents whenever he wants a snack from the snack drawer. When he does this, his parents typically give him a snack. Marcel’s behavior analyst instructs the parents to ignore this behavior and deny access to the snacks. However, if Marcel asks for a snack in an appropriate way, such as by saying, “May I have a snack, please?” the analyst instructs the parents to give him a snack. Which differential reinforcement procedure is the behavior analyst teaching the parents to use?
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[FinB] When Gabriella begins removing items from her desk and throwing them on the floor, her behavior technician presents index cards depicting common items for her to tact. Following several implementations of this procedure, Gabriella’s instances of throwing items decreases to near zero. Which punishment procedure is exemplified in this scenario?
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A 52-year-old postmenopausal woman undergoes dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) scanning as part of routine health screening. Her lumbar spine bone mineral density (T-score) corresponds to a value 2.7 standard deviations below the mean peak bone mass of a healthy young adult reference population. What does this T score reflect?
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