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 the room. 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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A) Older preschoolers establish an accurate one-to-one correspondence between number words and the items they represent. B) The principle of cardinality is attained before the principle of ordinality. C) A beginning grasp of ordinality is displayed between 14 and 16 months of age. D) Most 1-year-olds grasp the principle of cardinality.
Why are research articles not the final step in the process of experiments?
a) Because they are often a launching point for further research b) Because there are always further studies to complete c) Because the review process is very extensive d) Because they often need further clarification