You are afraid of tunnels. Your therapist first helps you to deeply relax and then asks you to imagine a distant tunnel. When you can stay relaxed while visualizing this image, the therapist then asks you to imagine nearing the entrance, and finally entering the tunnel. Eventually, when you can remain relaxed while imagining all of this, the therapist takes you through a short tunnel. This list
of increasingly fear-provoking situations is known as ____.
a. ?assertiveness training
b. ?stress-inoculation therapy
c. ?a token economy program
d. ?a desensitization hierarchy
ANSWER:
d
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a. but only if the model is live (rather than filmed) b. but only if the model's target is a real person (rather than a doll) c. but only if the model is live (rather than filmed) AND the model's target is a real person (rather than a doll) d. regardless of whether the model is live or filmed, and regardless of whether the model's target is a real person (rather than a doll)
The tendency to think that a syllogism is valid if its conclusion is believable is called the _________________.
A. availability heuristic B. confirmatory bias C. belief bias D. mental set
Weight reduction based on changing exercise and eating habits, rather than temporary self-starvation is called
a. metabolism motivational dieting. b. behavioral dieting. c. "yo-yo dieting.". d. taste aversive conditioning.
Long-term procedural memories appear to be located primarily in the ______
a. hippocampus c. cerebellum b. basal ganglia d. reticular formation