Author Question: A middle-aged woman presents for therapy with a history of early childhood trauma perpetrated by ... (Read 65 times)

DyllonKazuo · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

A middle-aged woman presents for therapy with a history of early childhood trauma perpetrated by abusive parents. She now reports that she is unable to tolerate any close social ties as much as she longs for them, and becomes highly anxious whenever people begin to get close.. From a learning theory perspective, this might be best explained by the process of:

a. generalization. c. stimulus discrimination.
b. operant conditioning. d. extinction.

Question 2

The two-factor theory explains the development of anxiety or trauma disorders in terms of:

a. repression and avoidance.
b. arousal and phobic behaviors.
c. reinforcement and punishment.
d. classical and operant conditioning.