The rigid notion that old people who live in institutions have nothing to contribute to society often prevents them from optimizing what talents and skills they do have. This is an example of ______

In MacDorman and Singh's (1998) study comparing births attended by nurse-midwives

and births attended by physicians, the results indicated that a. nurse-midwife-attended births led to better birth outcomes. b. physician-attended births led to better birth outcomes. c. nurse-midwife-attended births led to lower infant mortality and higher risk of low-birth weight infants. d. physician-attended births led to lower infantmortality and higher risk of low-birth weight infants.

A technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is suddenly exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object in an intense way and is prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response is called __________

a) systematic desensitization b) flooding c) paradoxical intent d) aversive therapy