Regarding behavioral therapy, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Aversive conditioning uses principles of operant conditioning to help people extinguish undesirable behaviors. b. Gradual exposure can help people overcome specific phobias, social phobias, and post-traumatic stressdisorder
c. Behavior therapy is also referred to as behavior modification.
d. In systematic desensitization, the goal is to use relaxation as an incompatible response to fear in order to weaken the bonds between the frightening stimuli and the fear response.
e. Since behavior therapy is focused on directly changing problem behaviors, it tends to be relatively brief compared to other forms of therapy.
a
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The appeal of Tannen's view that males and females have gender-based communication styles due to cultural differences
a. has intuitive appeal because it confirms people's stereotypes and is simple. b. has empirical support in the area of negotiations. c. can explain all communication problems between males and females. d. supports the idea that communication has nothing to do with confusion of sexual consent.
Mental imagery tends to create a distinctive memory record because imagery:
a. prevents one from using discriminative processing b. forces one to use discriminative processing c. prevents one from thinking about the details of the material d. forces one to think about the details of the material
Perceiving only what is relevant to you is called:
A) perceptual sensitivity. B) sensory adaptation. C) multitasking. D) selective attention.