Operant Conditioning Is Impossible During the Prenatal Period

question 96

True/False

Operant conditioning is impossible during the prenatal period.

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Definitions:

Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT)

Cognitive behavioral therapy in which clients are directly challenged in their irrational beliefs and helped to restructure their thinking into more rational belief statements.

Magnification

In cognitive psychology, a distortion involving exaggerating the importance or significance of events, often seen in anxiety and depression.

Minimization

A defense mechanism where the individual downplays the significance or impact of an event or emotion.

Contingency Contracting

A behavioral intervention technique involving a written agreement between a client and a counselor specifying a behavior to be changed and the consequences that follow as a result.