Someone You Know Has Been Having a Lot of Difficulty

question 43

Multiple Choice

Someone you know has been having a lot of difficulty because of irrational fears. Knowing that you are studying abnormal psychology, this person asks if you know of an effective and well-established treatment. You advise her that ________, based on the mid-20th century work of Joseph Wolpe, is a successful anxiety reduction procedure.

• A)systematic desensitization
• B)person centered therapy
• C)exorcism
• D)aversive conditioning

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Definitions:

Teachers

Educators or instructors responsible for facilitating learning, educating students, and guiding them academically.

Knowledge Test Again

An assessment or examination designed to measure the understanding or proficiency in a specific area or subject, conducted twice to compare results.

Nonequivalent Control Group Design

An experimental design in which the participants are not randomly assigned to groups, potentially endangering the internal validity due to selection bias.

Selection Differences

Variations in the characteristics of participants in different groups of an experiment due to non-random assignment.