Which treatment is especially effective for overcoming the fear experienced when a person faces a phobic stimulus?

a) hypnosis
b) dream analysis
c) antidepressant drugs
d) systematic desensitization


D

Psychology

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a. his rejection of an important father figure—Freud. b. the failure to earn an academic degree. c. several identity crises. d. his refusal to sign an oath of loyalty to the field of medicine.

Psychology

Information in long-term memory is typically arranged in all of the following ways EXCEPT

a. rules. b. similarity. c. alphabetically. d. personal meanings.

Psychology

Research suggests that once children enter adolescence, psychological androgyny has _____ effects for _____

A) negative; boys and girls B) positive; boys and girls C) positive; boys but not girls D) positive; girls but not boys

Psychology

Sara Jaffee believes that teenage motherhood leads to harmful consequences through two distinct mechanisms

One of these mechanism refers to events set in motion when a teenage girl gives birth — events that make it harder for her to provide a positive environment for her child's development. This is known as a. social influence. c. social selection. b. peer pressure. d. social engineering. .

Psychology