One Difference Between Contingency Management (CM) and the Community Reinforcement

question 4

Multiple Choice

One difference between contingency management (CM) and the community reinforcement approach (CRA) is that CM makes use of X sources of reinforcement and CRA makes use of Y sources of reinforcement.

• A) X = naturalistic; Y = contrived.
• B) X = positive; Y = negative.
• C) X = contrived; Y = naturalistic.
• D) X = negative; Y = positive.

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Definitions:

Spurious

Describes something that is not genuine, authentic, or true; often used in statistics to refer to coincidental correlations between two variables that are actually caused by a third variable.

Control Variable

In experimental research, a variable that is kept constant to test the relative impact of an independent variable on a dependent variable.

Immigrant Status

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Canadian-Born

Individuals who were born in Canada, regardless of their parents' nationality.