Tamara is deathly afraid of coming in contact with germs. So, her therapist gradually exposes Tamara to "unclean" things,
such as touching dirt or taking a bite of an unwashed piece of fruit, while in a calm, relaxed, and supportive environment. This technique is known as
a. systematic desensitization.
b. vicarious conditioning.
c. spontaneous recovery.
d. modeling.
ANSWER: a
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In Bandura's classic study of children exposed to a film of an adult model hitting an inflated doll, both the children who saw the model rewarded and the children who saw the model punished ________
a. imitated the aggressive behavior they had seen b. performed equally aggressively in a free play situation c. learned nothing about the capacity to be aggressive d. refused to behave aggressively in a free play situation
______ is the extent to which a test or measurement represents all facets of a given concept
a. Internal validity c. Face validity b. External validity d. Content validity