Zelda visits a therapist for treatment of her anxiety. Her therapist teaches her to relax on a couch while working her way through a fear-stimulus hierarchy. Eventually, Zelda is able to
Remain calm in each of the situations presented in the hierarchy. Her therapist used a
Technique called ______.

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The technique described is systematic desensitization, which involves learning to relax while gradually confronting feared stimuli in a hierarchy of increasing intensity. Chain breaking is a technique for breaking habitual behaviors, response prevention is used to eliminate a specific behavior by preventing the response from occurring, and cue-controlled conditioning involves pairing a specific stimulus with a particular response to form a conditioned response. None of these techniques are consistent with the method described in the scenario.

Zelda Visits a Therapist for Treatment of Her Anxiety