A Patient Arrives in Your Office with a Severe Fear

Multiple Choice

A patient arrives in your office with a severe fear of spiders. You treat this patient by gradually introducing her to snake images, snake toys, and eventually live snakes in order to show her that nothing bad happened in the presence of these objects. You are using the therapeutic technique called

A) cognitive therapy.
B) systematic desensitization.
C) operant conditioning.
D) multidimensional therapy.