Duke is petrified of snakes. To help him overcome his fear, his therapist is teaching Duke
to relax in the face of increasingly more realistic encounters with a snake.
First, Duke
simply imagines the snake, then he imagines that a snake placed in a box is brought into
the room, and so on, until he finally imagineshimself holding the reptile. He implements
the relaxation procedures his therapist has taught him each time he imagines a different
"snake scenario." Duke's therapist isusing the therapeutic technique called
a. rational-emotive therapy.
b. aversion therapy.
c. modeling.
d. systematic desensitization.
e. implosion therapy.
d. systematic desensitization.
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What are the characteristics of moral development in adolescence?
What will be an ideal response?