Your therapist teaches you progressive muscle relaxation and then works with you to make a list of circumstances that disturb you, from the minor ones up through the worst you can imagine. She is using the behavioral technique called
a. somatic sensitization. c. transference.
b. systematic desensitization. d. systematic resistance.
B
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Behaviorists and cognitive psychologists are most likely to agree on which of the following points?
a. Researchers need to have detailed definitions about how a concept will be measured. b. Researchers must emphasize the external stimuli in the environment. c. Theorists must try to explain higher mental processes in terms of mental events. d. Most thought processes can be explained in terms of people's observable responses to stimuli.
The fact that type AB blood appears to be the result of a compromise between genes for type A and type B blood provides a good example of
A. incomplete dominance. B. mutation. C. polygenic inheritance. D. codominance.
The process of distinguishing one illness from another is called
A) ?diagnosis. B) ?etiology. C) ?prognosis. D) ?somatization.
According to Freud, memories, such as someone's last five addresses, would be part of the __________.
A. conscious B. superconscious C. preconscious D. unconscious