Making Someone Who Is Afraid of Snakes Handle Dozens of Snakes

question 20

Multiple Choice

Making someone who is afraid of snakes handle dozens of snakes in an effort to get him to overcome his fear is called __________.

• A)systematic desensitization
• B)aversive conditioning
• C)flooding
• D)paradoxical intent

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Definitions:

Amino Acids

Organic compounds serving as the building blocks of proteins, crucial for life and involved in various metabolic processes.

Orthologs

Genes in different species that evolved from a common ancestral gene by speciation and retain the same function in the course of evolution.

Homoplasy

Homoplasy refers to a phenomenon in evolutionary biology where similar traits or structures arise independently in different lineages, not due to common ancestry.

Molecular Phylogenies

The use of molecular data to construct evolutionary trees that represent the relationships among different species or organisms.