Julian seeks professional help for his fear of spiders. In stages, his therapist shows him pictures, movies, and models of spiders, then a real dead spider, a small live spider in a jar, several live spiders in a jar, and finally a live spider loose in t
At each stage, he made sure that Julian was fully relaxed. This technique is known as _______.
a. free association
b. desensitization
c. aversive conditioning
d. transactional therapy
b
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