Relativists

question 23

Multiple Choice

Relativists

• A) believe that there is no such thing as objective knowledge and view beliefs, theories, and values as inherently relative, contingent, and contextual
• B) believe that knowledge is objective, certain, and absolute.
• C) accept the pluralism of relativism without drawing the relativist conclusion that "anything goes."

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Definitions:

Childhood Feelings

Emotions or affective responses experienced during one's childhood years.

Client-Centered Therapy

A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)

Cognitive Therapy

A form of psychotherapy that emphasizes the identification and modification of dysfunctional thinking patterns to alter emotions and behavior.

Systematic Desensitization

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.