Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Martha is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Martha exactly which acts make her anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches her to relax,
and asks her to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce her anxiety as she imagines each scene from the bottom to the top of her hierarchy. The therapist is using _______.
a. desensitization
b. behavioral contracting
c. free association
d. positive regard
a
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intelligence with actual intelligence test scores, they found that a. students were moderately accurate. b. self-reports were valid "proxies" for IQ scores. c. others who knew the student were more accurate than the student. d. the correlations did not exceed .30. e. teachers of the students were more accurate than the students.
The two factors in Spearman's theory of intelligence are
A) musical intelligence and specific intelligence. B) experiential intelligence and contextual intelligence. C) general intelligence and specific intelligence. D) componential intelligence and general intelligence.
Brains of men and women exhibit the following general difference: Men's brains tend to be
A) 15% smaller. B) 15% larger. C) much more myelinated. D) both A and C E) both B and C
Research by developmentalists led to the ban on lead-based paint in the United States
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false