An adventitious chain occurs when:

A child who has a phobia of dogs experiences gradual, supportive exposure to dogs, and the fear decreases. This treatment combines which two types of conditioning?

A child learns to greet people in a therapy room but does not greet them at school or at home. This demonstrates a failure of:

A client records instances of positive self-talk and then congratulates herself each time she reaches a daily goal. Combining self-monitoring with self-reinforcement in this way is best described as:

A teacher notices that a student frequently talks out of turn during class discussions. The teacher begins praising the student each time he raises his hand and waits to be called on, and stops responding when he talks out. Over time, talking out decreases. Differential reinforcement most likely worked because:

Generality in behavior modification refers to:

A teacher accidentally reinforces a student’s blurting out by calling on her each time she shouts the answer. This demonstrates:

Being hungry makes food more reinforcing and increases the likelihood of food-seeking behaviors. This is an example of:

A therapist wants to understand the function of a child’s aggression. She uses a baseline phase, then implements intervention A, returns to baseline, then implements intervention A again. This design is called:

Raymond Carver once stated that he was “interested in the conversations of people who aren’t listening to each other.”  In two full paragraphs, demonstrate how this is illustrated in “A Small, Good Thing.” r