A Woman Experiences High Levels of Nervousness Right Before She

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Multiple Choice

A woman experiences high levels of nervousness right before she is to speak in front of a large audience. She decides she can't go through with the speech. She later tells her husband she could not speak because she was anxious. If her husband were B. F. Skinner, how might he respond?

• A) "Your feelings of anxiety indeed caused you to not speak because they acted like a punishment."
• B) "The anxiety is unrelated to the change in your behavior."
• C) "The change in your behavior my cause or be caused by your feelings of anxiety."
• D) "Anxious feelings do not exist because we cannot observe them."

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Definitions:

Psychosexual Development

Freud's theory of the stages of sexual development from infancy to adulthood, each characterized by erogenous zones and conflicts.

Psychoanalytic Theory

A theory of personality and psychopathology, initiated by Sigmund Freud, that emphasizes unconscious processes and conflicts in human behavior.

Clinical Method

A set of procedures used in therapy and psychology for diagnosing, assessing, and treating mental health disorders.

Freud

Sigmund Freud, an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.