Freddy is obsessed with cleanliness and, as a result, compulsively changes his "dirty" shirts up to twenty three times every day. He is working with a therapist who is helping him resist changing shirts

He is gradually starting to wear his shirts for progressively longer periods of time. The type of therapy he is engaged in is __________
a) aversion therapy.
b) modeling.
c) response prevention.
d) systematic desensitization.

c

Psychology

You might also like to view...

The skin senses are concerned with __________

a) touch, pressure, temperature, and pain. b) the location of body parts in relation to the ground and to each other. c) movement and body position. d) your location as compared to the position of the sun.

Psychology

Forming impressions and making judgments about the traits of others is called:

a. social facilitation c. social reasoning b. person perception d. person polarization

Psychology