Polishing _____ the Uptake of Professionally Applied Fluoride

question 19

Multiple Choice

Polishing _____ the uptake of professionally applied fluoride.Therefore,polishing is _____ before fluoride application.

• A)improves; necessary
• B)improves; not necessary
• C)does not improve; necessary
• D)does not improve; not necessary

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Definitions:

Sign-Stimuli

External sensory cues that trigger a specific, often instinctual, behavior in an organism.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process that involves creating associations between a naturally occurring stimulus and a previously neutral stimulus.

Instrumental Conditioning

A learning process through which the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior's consequences, such as reward or punishment.

Instinctive Drift

The inclination of an animal to return to innate behaviors that disrupt a learned response.