Martha and Stan are newlyweds. They see a therapist because Stan is afraid of sexual intercourse. The therapist asks Stan exactly which acts make him anxious, constructs a hierarchy of those threatening acts, teaches him to relax,
and asks him to imagine each threatening scene in the hierarchy and use the relaxation technique to reduce his anxiety. The therapist is using ________.
a. negative reinforcement
b. systematic desensitization
c. stepwise regression
d. aversive conditioning
Answer: b
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a. behavior rehearsal. b. direct instruction. c. positive practice. d. superior acceptance.
Feature detection cannot explain how you can ____.?
a. ?perceive the same sounds as "I scream" sometimes and "ice cream" at other times b. ?identify a new Honda automobile as a car, even if you had never seen that particular model before c. ?recognize a friend you have not seen in several years d. ?identify a black poodle as a poodle, even if you had previously seen only white poodles
When given a list of items to remember, people tend to do better at recalling the first items on the list. This is known as the ______
a. phi phenomenon c. recency effect b. chunking effect d. primacy effect
The theory that children learn language because their verbalizations are reinforced by their parents and others was first proposed by ______
a. Watson c. Chomsky b. Skinner d. Premack