What is Joseph Wolpe's most noted contribution to psychology?
a. Systematic desensitization as a means of therapy
b. The discovery that fear can be repressed through familiarity with the feared object
c. The definition of operant conditioning
d. The discovery of the mechanism of the extinction process
Answer: a. Systematic desensitization as a means of therapy
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