The technique of using desensitization involves:

Related Mcqs:

1. The technique of using desensitization involves:

   A. flooding the person with images of the feared stimulus
   B. gradually exposing the person to the feared stimulus
   C. gradually exposing the person to the feared stimulus only when they are fully relaxed
   D. systematically increasing the stimulus intensity up to the breaking point

2. Systematic desensitization involves the use of:

   A. progressive relaxation
   B. unconditional positive regard
   C. transference
   D. aversive conditioning

3. Systematic desensitization involves the use of:

   A. progressive relaxation
   B. unconditional positive regard
   C. transference
   D. aversive conditioning

4. Systematic desensitization is used in treatment of ___________?

   A. Schizophrenia
   B. Mood disorders
   C. Phobias
   D. Somatoform disorders

5. The use of the anxiety hierarchy in systematic desensitization allows for the:

   A. transfer of treatment to real – life situations
   B. direct confrontation with the feared object
   C. use of virtual reality to confront the fear
   D. gradual approach to the feared object

6. The foot- in- the- door technique involves asking people to agree to a_______request first to increase the like hood that they will comply with a_______request later.

   A. large; small
   B. small; large
   C. large; large
   D. large; larger

7. The double – blind technique involves:

   A. the simultaneous use or two or more therapeutic treatments in the hope that at least one will be effective.
   B. replacing a positive response to a harmful stimulus with a negative response.
   C. blocking anxiety – arousing material from consciousness during therapy.
   D. a procedure in which neither patients nor health care staff know whether a given patient is receiving a drug or placebo

8. Which THREE of the following are true regarding habituation and dishabituation?
   1:Habituation involves a gradual reduction in the magnitude of the response to repeated presentation of the response of a stimulus
   2:In dishabituation, the response returns when a salient extraneous stimulus is presented just before a trial with the habituated stimulus
   3:Habituation is caused by sensory-motor fatigue
   4:Habituation occurs as a consequence of the repeated presentation of a single event

   A. 1,2 & 3
   B. 2,3 & 4
   C. 1,2 & 4
   D. 4

9. Learning is best defined as a process that involves:

   A. Two stimuli being paired that produce a conditioned response over time
   B. An organism interacting with its environment, becoming changed by experience, and thereby modifying subsequent behaviours
   C. An organism interacting with its environment through autoshaping and conditioning
   D. An organism responding to its environment based on reinforcement or punishment for behaviours
   E. The effect of parents, teachers and peers

10. A way of diagnosing and planning treatment for a patient that involves evaluating someone in order to figure out what is wrong is defined as which of the following?

    A. Testing
    B. Clinical assessment
    C. Evaluation
    D. Mental status examination