Explain the basic processes involved in systematic desensitization.
What will be an ideal response?
In the course of the systematic desensitization method, the therapist breaks down the maladaptive response into its smallest steps rather than exposing the client all at once to the feared stimulus. The client provides the therapist with a hierarchy, or list, of images associated with the feared stimulus. Starting with the least fearful situation in the hierarchy, the clinician asks the client to imagine that image and relax at the same time. After the client has established the connection between that image and relaxation, the clinician then moves up the hierarchy to the next level. Eventually, the client is able to confront the feared situation, while at the same time feeling entirely relaxed.
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a. alarm stage b. exhaustion stage c. adaptation stage d. collapse stage
Family conflict and stress
may cause the early onset of puberty. may cause the late onset of puberty. typically increase after puberty. typically decrease after puberty.
According to Sigmund Freud ________
a. dreams are "the royal road into the unconscious." b. dreams are "children of an idle brain." c. getting through a crisis or a rough period in life takes "time, good friends, good genes, good luck, and a good dream system." d. everything in a dream is symbolic.
Which of the following is a descriptive method used in psychological research?
a. an experiment b. a case study c. a double-blind study d. a single-blind study