An Obsessive-Compulsive Person Who Was Told That Everyone Was Required

question 159

Multiple Choice

An obsessive-compulsive person who was told that everyone was required to wear shoes at all times in the house and not to vacuum for a week would be experiencing what therapy procedures?

• A) family therapy
• B) exposure and response prevention
• C) reinforcement for compulsive behavior
• D) free association

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Definitions:

Sensory Memory

The shortest-term element of memory, which allows retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Primacy and Recency Effects

Psychological terms describing the tendency to remember information that appears at the beginning (primacy) and end (recency) of a list better than information in the middle.

Memory

The cognitive process of encoding, storing, and retrieving information.

Retrieval

The process of accessing and bringing into conscious awareness information stored in memory.