Your cousin, Victor, is now being treated for an escalator phobia (he fears everything about escalators). He tells you his psychologist is planning to use systematic desensitization. You happen to know a little about this treatment so you tell him it is a form of

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17 July, 00:32

Your cousin, Victor, is now being treated for an escalator phobia (he fears everything about escalators). He tells you his psychologist is planning to use systematic desensitization. You happen to know a little about this treatment so you tell him it is a form of

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Kody Ali · Answer 1

classical conditioning that involves relaxation and a hierarchy of fear.

Explanation:

Systematic desensitization: In abnormal psychology, the term "systematic desensitization" is determined as a type of behavioral technique which is being used for the treatment of anxiety disorders, phobias, and fear by many of the therapist and psychologists.

In systematic desensitization, a person is generally being evolved in several "relaxation exercises and eventually, he or she is being exposed to an "anxiety-provoking stimulus" such as place, object, or situation.