Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders; then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar,
and finally a live spider loose in the room. At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This therapist is most likely a ______ therapist.
a. psychoanalytic c. behavior
b. client-centered d. cognitive
C
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Clarissa had used OxyContin for years after a back injury. Her doctor became concerned after she did not come in for a required pill count and refused to refill her prescription. At first Clarissa needed the OxyContin, but by the third week without the drug, Clarissa's cravings were so intense that she switched to Opana, another opioid that she could buy on the street more easily. Which of the following is true of Clarissa?
A. She relapsed due to her lack of willpower. B. She thought her drug cravings were becoming worse, but her brain was becoming less dependent on opioids. C. Connections between her amygdala and prefrontal cortex became silent, which urged her to relapse. D. Her cravings were getting worse as connections between her amygdala and nucleus accumbens became functional.
John conducted an experiment to test the effectiveness of a smoking cessation program. The experiment took place over a one-month time period. Subjects in the control group and the experimental group (those who participated in the smoking cessation program) recorded the number of cigarettes that they smoked each day. John was unaware that "national stop-smoking week" also happened to take place
during the one-month time period of his experiment. John's experiment is now confounded by: a. maturation. b. history. c. regression to the mean. d. mortality.
Information that is better retrieved in the physiological or emotional state in which it was encoded and stored, or learned is called context-dependent memory
Indicate whether the statement is true or false