Identify and State the Historical Significance of the Following

question 118

Short Answer

Identify and state the historical significance of the following:
-Silent Spring

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Definitions:

Joseph Wolpe

A South African psychiatrist known for developing systematic desensitization, a technique used in the treatment of phobias and anxiety disorders.

Behaviour Therapy

A type of psychotherapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through conditioning, without delving deeply into past underlying conflicts.

Systematic Desensitization

A therapeutic technique used to reduce fear or anxiety by gradually exposing the patient to the feared object or context.

Classical Conditioning

The procedure of acquiring skills by associating a stimulus occurring in one's environment with a naturally arising stimulus, prompting a learned reaction.