A patient who had long feared going into elevators was told by his therapist to force himself to enter 20 elevators a day. The therapist most likely wanted to encourage the ________ of the patient's fear.

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The therapist was using an extinction therapy technique by having the patient repeatedly expose themselves to the fear-inducing stimulus (elevators) in order to reduce the fear response.

A Patient Who Had Long Feared Going into Elevators Was