A Therapist Tells a Patient Who Is Afraid of Elevators

Multiple Choice

A therapist tells a patient who is afraid of elevators that his rapid breathing while on an elevator is not due to fear but is a natural consequence of too little oxygen in a small, enclosed space. With this new interpretation of his arousal, the patient no longer dreads elevators. The reduction in the patient's fear is best understood in terms of the

A) adaptation-level phenomenon.
B) two-factor theory.
C) James-Lange theory.
D) Zajonc-LeDoux theory.