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Tamisha is so afraid of heights that she cannot enter buildings with more than two floors. Her cognitive-behavioral therapist would probably diagnose her with ____ and explain the problem in terms of ____.
 
  a. generalized anxiety disorder; faulty reasoning
  b. agoraphobia; genetic markers
 c. social phobia; repression and denial
 d. specific phobia; cognitive distortions

Question 2

A behavioral therapist would explain the agoraphobic's fear of leaving the house as a(n) ____.
 
  a. direct conditioning experience
 b. exaggerated fear stemming from a single panic attack
 c. unconscious way of preventing the acting out of sexual desires
  d. subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder



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Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a



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