A client who is afraid of flying describes a recent episode in which his/her job required her to take a one-hour flight. A client-centered therapist is most likely to respond by
a. acknowledging the anxiety that the client must have felt .
b. pointing out to the client that he/she survived the flight and no catastrophe occurred, thus challenging the belief that flying is dangerous.
c. offering social reinforcements including smiles and compliments to increase the likelihood that the client will fly again.
d. offering the interpretation that the client's fear of flying may actually be a response (reaction formation) to an unconscious wish to "fly" away from home.
A
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Suppose that you have just learned that you will have a quiz in about 30 minutes on a set of fairly difficult short essays that you haven't even glanced at. If you are like the students described in the discussion of regulating study strategies, you woul
a. select the most difficult essays to read first. b. select the easiest essays to read first. c. select easier essays to read first if you are an expert, but select more difficult essays to read first if you are a novice. d. show no systematic pattern in reading the essays.
In which situation is intuition most likely to be used?
A. driving the normal route to work B. picking the music for the first dance at a wedding C. learning a new type of embroidery stitch D. menu planning for a special occasion
According to Bandura, people are more likely to expect to:
a. succeed when they are tense b. fail when they are relaxed c. succeed when they are physiologically aroused d. fail when they are physiologically aroused