AP PSYCHOLOGY

TREATMENT OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR

THERAPY AND TREATMENT

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Benny’s mother tries to reduce his fear of sailing by giving the 3-year-old his favorite candy as soon as they board the boat. The mother’s strategy best illustrates
A
counterconditioning.
B
relaxation training.
C
the placebo effect.
D
aversive conditioning.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Benny’s mother tries to reduce his fear of sailing by giving the 3-year-old his favorite candy as soon as they board the boat. The mother’s strategy best illustrates: counterconditioning.

Detailed explanation-2: -client-centered therapy. emphasize the importance of self-awareness for psychological adjustment. Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client? counterconditioning.

Detailed explanation-3: -Which counterconditioning technique is especially helpful when it would be too expensive or too embarrassing for a person to directly confront an anxiety-arousing situation? aerobic exercise.

Detailed explanation-4: -Person-centered therapy, also known as Rogerian therapy or client-based therapy, employs a non-authoritative approach that allows clients to take more of a lead in sessions such that, in the process, they discover their own solutions.

Detailed explanation-5: -The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e., make the unconscious conscious. It is only having a cathartic (i.e., healing) experience can the person be helped and “cured."

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