Andrew is so afraid of germs that he wears gloves when opening doors. He is encouraged by his therapist to imitate a person in a video who demonstrates opening a door, step-by-step, without wearing gloves. Which technique is Andrew's therapist using?

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Andrew's therapist is using participant modeling, which involves encouraging the person to imitate a model who demonstrates the desired behavior. In this case, the model is opening doors without wearing gloves, which is the behavior Andrew's therapist wants him to adopt instead of his fear-based behavior. Systematic desensitization is a type of therapy that gradually exposes a person to a fear or phobia in a controlled setting, token economy involves reinforcing positive behavior with tokens, and extinction is a method of reducing a behavior by no longer reinforcing it.

Andrew Is So Afraid of Germs That He Wears Gloves