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Peer reviewedRappaport, Herbert – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1972
Within an experimental paradigm that simulated systematic desensitization, the effects of manipulated cognitive expectancy on avoidance behavior were evaluated. The results indicated that both overt avoidance behavior and two verbal indexes were differentially affected by expectancy and that no relationship between avoidance behavior and autonomic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, College Students
Bernal, Guillermo; Wisocki, Patricia A. – 1975
The relative effects of imagerial covert rehearsal with attentional shifts and the use of an independent reinforcing agent in a covert reinforcement therapy were compared. A 17-year-old female student, requesting treatment for a snake phobia, served as the subject. The phobia was measured along four dimensions: behavioral approaches to a live…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavior Patterns, Case Studies
