Jan has a fear of riding across bridges
In order to get her over her phobia, she is asked to imagine a series of increasingly distressing images involving her riding in a car across increasingly longer bridges. The most distressing being imagining herself driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge to her cousin's house. This procedure is a type of
a. desensitization.
b. transference.
c. in-vivo exposure.
d. imagery rehearsal.
ANSWER: a
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