The Concept of Using Storytelling and Metaphor to Create Helpful

question 28

Multiple Choice

The concept of using storytelling and metaphor to create helpful or healing imagery-based suggestions has a long and deep tradition in the world's major religions, in indigenous traditions such as those practiced by Native Americans, and in traditional Chinese medicine among others. Even though this method has been practiced for several millennia, psychologists were generally slow to adopt it until the late 1960s when Joseph Wolpe incorporated ____ into his systematic desensitization method.

• A) guided imagery
• B) autogenic training
• C) progressive muscle relaxation
• D) exposure imagery

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Definitions:

Stromatolites

Layered sedimentary formations created by the growth of microbial mats, among the oldest evidence of life on Earth.

Organic Molecules

Molecules that contain carbon and are typically found in living systems, including carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, and nucleic acids.

Miller

A term often associated with the Miller-Urey experiment, which simulated early Earth conditions and demonstrated that organic compounds could be formed from inorganic substances.

Herbaceous Plants

Plants that do not have woody stems and typically die back to the ground level at the end of the growing season.