A Behavioral Therapist Would Explain the Agoraphobic's Fear of Leaving

question 84

Multiple Choice

A behavioral therapist would explain the agoraphobic's fear of leaving the house as a(n) ____.

• A) direct conditioning experience
• B) exaggerated fear stemming from a single panic attack
• C) unconscious way of preventing the acting out of sexual desires
• D) subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder

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Speech Development

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Sensorimotor Substage

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Pleasurable Activities

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Goal

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