Julie Has a Fear of Riding in Elevators

question 54

Multiple Choice

Julie has a fear of riding in elevators. She is seeing a therapist who asks her to construct a hierarchy of her fears related to riding in elevators. In addition, her therapist is teaching her to relax while imagining each fear in the hierarchy. Julie's therapist is using __________

• A) person-centered therapy.
• B) rational-emotive therapy.
• C) systematic desensitization.
• D) cognitive consistency therapy.

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Definitions:

Fisher's Exact Test

A statistical significance test used to examine the association between two categorical variables in a contingency table, especially useful for small sample sizes.

Yates' Correction

A statistical adjustment made to the chi-squared test for small sample sizes, to better approximate the chi-squared distribution.

Expected Frequencies

The predicted counts of occurrences across different categories or intervals that one would expect by chance.

Fisher's Exact Test

A statistical significance test used to determine if there are nonrandom associations between two categorical variables, often employed when sample sizes are small.