Jean-Luc has a fear of the dentist. He is taken to the dentist's office every week for a month. Each time, he stays a bit longer and realizes that it is not such a scary place. Jean-Luc's therapist is using which behaviour therapy?
A) aversion
B) exposure
C) operant
D) interpersonal
B) exposure
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When health psychologists prepare an intervention for a health behavior change, what are the success strategies that are needed in order for the intervention to be effective?
What will be an ideal response?
When a stimulus that originally did not cause a particular response now begins to cause that response, ____ has occurred
a. ?operant conditioning b. ?stimulus discrimination c. ?extinction d. ?classical conditioning
What paradigm was used by the therapist in the following example? Joan was fired from her job, and her therapist attempted to help her see that this was not terrible, and that being fired may not mean she was a bad person
a) Learning paradigm b) Psychoanalytic paradigm c) Cognitive paradigm d) Existential paradigm
A recent meta-analysis of cognitive therapy by Hamilton and Dobson from the University of Calgary found that less favourable outcomes were related to:
a) High pre-treatment severity scores b) High levels of dysfunctional attitude c) Chronic depression d) All of the above