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Counterconditioning is a technique in which a client learns a new response to a stimulus that previously:Read the answer and worked solution →Which two techniques are named as counterconditioning techniques?Read the answer and worked solution →Joseph Wolpe refined earlier techniques thirty years later, giving us:Read the answer and worked solution →Which popular operant conditioning intervention is named?Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive therapy focuses on how a person's thoughts lead to feelings of:Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive-behavioral therapists focus much more on present issues than on a patient's:Read the answer and worked solution →Cognitive-behavioral therapy examines maladaptive automatic thoughts and:Read the answer and worked solution →Carl Rogers developed a therapeutic orientation known as client-centered or:Read the answer and worked solution →Unconditional positive regard, as Rogers used it, involves not judging clients and:Read the answer and worked solution →Deinstitutionalization is described as the closing of:Read the answer and worked solution →Group treatment is described as having which advantage over individual, couples or family therapy?Read the answer and worked solution →A therapist treating a phobia by gradually pairing relaxation with the feared object is using:Read the answer and worked solution →Match each therapy to its ideaRead the answer and worked solution →Tap what belongs to each approachRead the answer and worked solution →True or false: therapyRead the answer and worked solution →Stop on the right therapyRead the answer and worked solution →Complete the therapy namesRead the answer and worked solution →Individual differences refer to what, for psychologists?Read the answer and worked solution →Situationism says behaviour is shaped mainly by what?Read the answer and worked solution →Binet defined intelligence as judging well, understanding well and what?Read the answer and worked solution →Wechsler saw intelligence mainly as its value for what?Read the answer and worked solution →In Spearman's two-factor theory, abilities common to all tasks form the what?Read the answer and worked solution →Which is one of Thurstone's primary mental abilities?Read the answer and worked solution →How many types of intelligence did Gardner describe?Read the answer and worked solution →Poets and writers are strong in which of Gardner's intelligences?Read the answer and worked solution →Dancers and gymnasts are likely strong in which intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →Counsellors and social workers are likely high in which intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →Farmers, botanists and bird watchers have more of which intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →Sternberg's 'street smartness' is which type of intelligence?Read the answer and worked solution →Which of Sternberg's types is analytical and helps succeed in school?Read the answer and worked solution →

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Counterconditioning is a technique in which a client learns a new response to a stimulus that previously:

  1. Elicited undesirable behaviour
  2. Produced no reaction at all
  3. Appeared only in dreams
  4. Was never encountered
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Correct answer: A. Elicited undesirable behaviour

1. Counterconditioning comes from classical conditioning. 2. One commonly used classical conditioning therapeutic technique is counterconditioning. 3. In it a client learns a new response to a stimulus. 4. That stimulus has previously elicited an undesirable behavior. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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Which two techniques are named as counterconditioning techniques?

  1. Playing and artwork
  2. Aversive and exposure
  3. Token and dreaming
  4. Grouping and family
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Correct answer: B. Aversive and exposure

1. Counterconditioning covers more than one method. 2. Counterconditioning teaches a new response to a problem stimulus. 3. Two counterconditioning techniques are named. 4. They are aversive conditioning and exposure therapy. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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Joseph Wolpe refined earlier techniques thirty years later, giving us:

  1. The token economy plan
  2. Client-centered therapy
  3. Systematic desensitization
  4. Free association work
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Correct answer: C. Systematic desensitization

1. One behavioural technique carries a specific origin story. 2. Jones developed early counterconditioning techniques. 3. Thirty years later, Joseph Wolpe refined those techniques. 4. That refinement gave us systematic desensitization. _Source: OpenStax Psychology 2e (CC BY 4.0), Ch 16 'Therapy and Treatment', sections 16.1-16.4_

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