AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Systematic desensitization is an evidence-based therapy approach that combines relaxation techniques with gradual exposure to help you slowly overcome a phobia.

Detailed explanation-2: -Systematic desensitization is used to treat extreme aversions through a combination of graded exposure and relaxation. It is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that is focused on helping clients overcome common fears or phobias.

Detailed explanation-3: -Systematic desensitization involves exposing phobic individuals to fear-evoking images and thoughts (i.e., imaginal exposure) or to actual phobic stimuli, while pairing the exposure with relaxation (or another response that is incompatible with fear) to decrease the normal fear response.

Detailed explanation-4: -Systematic desensitization: gradual exposure combined with relaxation exercises. Flooding: rapid exposure to the most feared and difficult situations. Graded exposure: ranking fear exposures according to difficulty, and starting with the easiest ones then working your way up.

Detailed explanation-5: -Systematic desensitization is a form of exposure therapy developed by Joseph Wolpe in 1958. Based on reciprocal inhibition, it posits that an individual cannot be relaxed and anxious simultaneously. A hierarchy of the patient’s fears is developed.