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The Nurse Is Preparing to Obtain a Health History on a Client

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The nurse is preparing to obtain a health history on a client. Which phase of the health history should the nurse recognize is occurring?

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Definitions:

Partial Reinforcement

A type of learning in which a behavior is reinforced only a portion of the time it occurs, known to increase resistance to extinction.

Non-Contingent Reinforcement

A form of reinforcement where rewards are given at fixed or variable intervals independent of the recipient's behavior.

Classical Conditioning

The act of learning that happens when two stimuli are paired together repeatedly, and a reaction initially caused by the second stimulus starts to be triggered by the first stimulus exclusively.

Discriminative Stimulus

A cue or event that indicates that a particular response will lead to a certain consequence in operant conditioning.

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