Author Question: Avoidance responses are said to be learned or conditioned because they: a. are associated with ... (Read 59 times)

penza · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

Avoidance responses are said to be learned or conditioned because they:

a. are associated with higher levels of anxiety.
b. function to reduce or minimize anxiety, and thus are self-reinforcing.
c. can be easily generalized.
d. inhibit facing distressing feelings, thoughts, or images.

Question 2

At its heart, the goal of implosive therapy is to:

a. decrease reliance on avoidance responses to help people face their most frightening images, feelings, and thoughts.
b. flood people with positive imagery to counter aversive images.
c. replace maladaptive avoidance responses with more adaptive avoidance responses.
d. release the life energy bound up in characterological muscular armor.