Twenty-Three-Year-Old Venetia Is Thinking About Getting Pregnant

question 63

Multiple Choice

Twenty-three-year-old Venetia is thinking about getting pregnant. Her doctor recommends that Venetia begin taking folic acid supplements in order to reduce the risk of ______ in her offspring.

• A)miscarriage
• B)fetal alcohol syndrome
• C)spina bifida
• D)rubella
• E)sudden infant death syndrome

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Definitions:

Operant Conditioning

The method of transforming behavior intensity by administering either reinforcements or punishments.

Shaping

A method of training by which successive approximations toward a desired behavior are reinforced.

Withholding Reinforcement

is a behavioral strategy where a positive outcome or reward is not given, aiming to decrease or eliminate a certain behavior.

Extinction

In behavior psychology, the gradual disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.