Joan Cannot Stop Thinking About Jumping Off a Tall Building

question 281

Multiple Choice

Joan cannot stop thinking about jumping off a tall building. This causes her a great deal of stress. To escape from these thoughts, Joan recites nursery rhymes over and over again. This seems to reduce the stress. For Joan, the reciting of rhymes are

• A)attempts at wish fulfillment
• B)conditioned responses
• C)compulsions
• D)obsessions
• E)dysthymia

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