Why Are Operant Conditioning Techniques Being Applied in Canadian Hospital

question 49

Multiple Choice

Why are operant conditioning techniques being applied in Canadian hospital settings?

• A)to increase patients' insight into their fears and wishes
• B)to reduce psychiatric patients' undesirable behaviour and increase their desirable behaviour
• C)to reduce patients' fear of surgery
• D)to increase nursing staff's empathy

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