Marie who wants to lose weight looks at a dessert and visualizes maggots crawling all over it. In situations that test her self-control, Marie is using

a. systematic adaptation.
b. covert sensitization.
c. stress inoculation.
d. systematic desensitization.

ANSWER: b

Psychology

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