Psychoanalysis Would Most Likely Involve Discouraging Patients from

question 86

Multiple Choice

Psychoanalysis would most likely involve discouraging patients from

• A) experiencing strong positive or negative feelings for their therapist.
• B) discontinuing psychotherapy whenever they felt it was no longer necessary.
• C) talking about anxiety-arousing material during therapy.
• D) talking about whatever comes to mind.

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Definitions:

Spontaneous Recovery

Following a period without exposure to the conditioned stimulus, a conditioned response that had previously disappeared resurfaces.

Shaping

A process in behavioral psychology that involves reinforcing behaviors that are successively closer to the desired action.

Stimulus Generalization

The tendency for the conditioned response to be evoked by stimuli that are similar to the stimulus to which the response was conditioned.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to differentiate between similar stimuli and respond appropriately to each.