Wolpe (1973) developed an approach to treating individuals with phobias that increasingly exposed the person to the feared stimulus, which is called _____.

a. vicarious conditioning
b. systematic desensitization


b. systematic desensitization

Psychology

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Participants in an experiment are asked to decide as quickly as possible whether a briefly presented stimulus is or is not a word. This is called

a. a lexical decision task. b. counterbalancing. c. a practice effect. d. a within-subjects design.

Psychology

Cognitive learning involves:

a. an association between events or phenomena. b. an association between responses. c. an association between behavior and its consequences. d. internal representations of events in the world.

Psychology

The concept dasein implies

a. that people have no existence apart from the world. b. that the world has meaning apart from the people in it. c. the person's experience of the self as interdependent and connected. d. All of these answers are correct.

Psychology

Anxiety is best thought of as ______.

A. current fear B. past memories of fear C. anticipation of some future threat D. irrational

Psychology