Introduction to Psychology 10th Edition by Rod Plotnik,Haig Kouyoumdjian

Exercise 3

A nondrug treatment for conditioned nausea involves a procedure based on classical conditioning in which a person imagines or visualizes fearful or anxiety-evoking stimuli and then immediately uses deep (a) _____ to decrease the anxiety associated with these stimuli. This procedure, which is called (b) _____, is a form of counterconditioning because it uses deep relaxation to replace or decrease the fear or anxiety with particular (c) _____ that are arranged in a hierarchy.