Toothbrushing Techniques That Require Brush Filament Placement on an Angle

question 20

Multiple Choice

Toothbrushing techniques that require brush filament placement on an angle in relation to the teeth are more difficult for clients to achieve consistently. Effective toothbrushing is not easy for most clients, and this additional challenge can limit toothbrushing effectiveness and client motivation.

• A) Both statements are true.
• B) Both statements are false.
• C) The first statement is true, and the second statement is false.
• D) The first statement is false, and the second statement is true.

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Definitions:

Withdrawal Response

A behavior in which an organism avoids or retreats from an unpleasant or threatening stimulus.

Dishabituation

The phenomenon of dishabituation involves the re-emergence or strengthening of a response to a stimulus, after that response had diminished due to repeated exposure to the stimulus, reinvigorated by a change in context.

A State

The initial affective reaction to an environmental stimulus in opponent-process theory.

B State

The opposite affective response that the initial affective reaction, or A state, elicits in opponent-process theory.