Cognitive and behavioural therapies for phobias are unified by their emphasis upon:
a) Exploration of unconscious factors
b) Training in relaxation procedures
c) Direct contact with the feared situation
d) Medication to reduce anxiety
c
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Advice columnists respond to only a fraction of the letters they receive. If a researcher were to analyze only the columnists' printed letters to describe the everyday problems people face, which problem likely will affect the researcher's findings?
A. selective survival B. selective deposit C. spurious relationship D. situation sampling
To help people control alcohol intake, tastes of different alcoholic beverages can be paired with drug-induced nausea and vomiting or with electric shock. This best exemplifies _____
A) aversive conditioning B) virtual therapy C) modeling D) biofeedback training
One of the problems inherent in participant-observer research is a difficulty with
a. Reliability b. Validity c. Objectivity d. Instrumentation
Denny is quite fearful of going to the dentist
Over time he has noticed that he becomes anxious at even the smell of the dentist's office. Every step Denny takes right up until the dentist starts to drill a tooth seems to cause muscle tension and anxiety. Denny is experiencing __________ a) reflexive conditioning. b) operant conditioning. c) graduated conditioning. d) higher-order conditioning.