Jan Has a Fear of Riding Across Bridges

question 238

Multiple Choice

Jan has a fear of riding across bridges. In order to get her over her phobia, she is asked to imagine a series of increasingly distressing images involving her riding in a car across increasingly longer bridges. The most distressing being imagining herself driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge to her cousin's house. This procedure is a type of

• A)desensitization.
• B)transference.
• C)in-vivo exposure.
• D)imagery rehearsal.

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