The Four Conditioning Principles Discussed in the Last Chapter Are

question 58

Multiple Choice

The four conditioning principles discussed in the last chapter are reinforcement, extinction, generalization, and discrimination. You remember them by imagining walking into your living room and seeing the following: an extra beam in the ceiling to reinforce it; on the countertop an ant that you extinguish; a general sitting at your living room table eating lunch; and playing in the family room, a pair of twins between whom you must learn to discriminate . You are using a(n) _______________ to learn these conditioning principles.

• A) acrostic
• B) pegword
• C) method of loci
• D) acronym

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Definitions:

DRGs

Diagnosis Related Groups; a system used to classify hospital cases into groups for the purposes of payment and analysis.

Length

The measurement of something from end to end or the distance along its longest side.

E Codes

External cause codes in medical coding that represent the cause of injury, poisoning, or other adverse effects, used in health records and statistical data collection.