Sharif has been diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder
His therapist purposely asks him to think about the unwanted, intrusive, unpleasant thought. These thoughts typically trigger Sharif to feel the need to engage in a particular behavior. However, his therapist does not allow him to engage in that behavior for periods of time. The goal is to decrease and eventually eliminate the need for the compulsion. This technique is called _____
a) flooding.
b) aversion therapy.
c) exposure and response prevention.
d) overexposure.
Answer: c
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The terms subliminal perception and implicit memory are used to distinguish between:
A. tests that make reference to the study episode versus those that do not. B. a kind of memory that involves conscious awareness of the study episode at test as opposed to a kind of memory that does not. C. a kind of study in which regularities are retained after many exposures to a pattern or rule, as opposed to a kind of study in which information is retained after a single exposure. D. situations in which subjects are consciously aware of stimuli at study versus those when they are not. E. study instructions that make the subject aware that a test will follow versus those that do not.
Twenty years ago, most psychology textbooks described psychology as the "study of behavior." Today, most of these describe psychology as the "study of behavior and mental processes." This definitional change can in large part be attributed to the impact
of ______ psychology. a. behavioral b. humanistic c. cognitive d. existential