Tamara is deathly afraid of coming in contact with germs. So, her therapist gradually exposes Tamara to "unclean" things, such as touching dirt or taking a bite of an unwashed piece of fruit, while in a calm, relaxed, and supportive environment. This technique is known as
a. systematic desensitization.
b. vicarious conditioning.
c. spontaneous recovery.
d. modeling.
A
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How do the functions of the occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes differ? a. They control different types of motivation and emotion. b. They control different types of movement
c. They control different aspects of personality. d. They control different sensory systems.
The fact that the importance people place on dreams varies across societies BEST illustrates which of the textbook's unifying themes?
a. Psychology is empirical. b. Psychology evolves in a sociohistorical context. c. Our behavior is shaped by our cultural heritage. d. Our experience of the world is highly subjective.
Laboratory studies measuring participants' cardiovascular reactivity to different stressors have found that _____ show higher blood pressure responses and epinephrine responses to tasks compared with European Americans
a. Asian Americans b. Latinos c. Native Americans d. African Americans
Whitney tells her friend Jan that she can wear the extra jacket that she keeps in her car. Whitney hands Jan her keys and heads off to class. Jan heads to Whitney's car with the set of eight keys. She looks at the keys, noting that two are too small to be car keys; and then she looks for any key that might have a symbol associated with a particular car. She finds two keys that have a shape on them like the hood ornament on Whitney's car. So, these will be the only two keys of the eight that she will try. To solve this "key" problem, Jan used
a. functional fixedness b. an algorithm c. a heuristic d. a random search strategy