Desensitization is an exposure therapy in which people are gradually exposed to feared stimuli until their fears undergo
a. adaptation.
b. extinction.
c. generalization.
d. transference.
B
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a. a complete reversal in their psychotic symptoms b. a loss in the ability to plan and coordinate activities c. hallucinations and delusions following the surgery d. impaired motor coordination and significant memory loss
The freshmen competed with the sophomores to see who could raise the most money by recycling. The appropriate design for testing the significance of the difference between the means is
a. related samples t-test. c. one-sample t-test. b. independent samples t-test. d. z-test.
Most psychological traits are due to the influence of __________ inheritance
Fill in the blanks with correct word
Which of the following statements is an example of selective mortality?
a) Today's older adults are less likely to seek mental health services because when they were growing up, mental illness was stigmatized. b) Because exercise has become widely promoted in the media, many older adults are now exercising and thus healthier than was predicted by earlier measures of their physical well-being. c) Because of the effects of aging on the brain, older adults do less well than younger adults on measures of "fluid" intelligence. d) In a longitudinal study, many of the elderly subjects died before the follow-up data was collected.