alleryStart learning →A therapist treating a phobia by gradually pairing relaxation with the feared object is using:
AFree association method
BThe token economy plan
CUnconditional regard
DSystematic desensitization
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. Systematic desensitization
1. Phobia treatment grew out of classical conditioning work.
2. Counterconditioning teaches a new response to a stimulus that elicited undesirable behavior.
3. Two counterconditioning techniques are aversive conditioning and exposure therapy.
4. Joseph Wolpe refined Jones's techniques thirty years later.
5. 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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