Assignment task: Article: Relaxing Your Fears Away (Wolpe, 1961)
What is the context of the study? Here you want to consider what inspired this study. Was it a recent event? Were the researchers trying to demonstrate a new way of thinking or explaining human behaviour? Make sure you consider the time period as well as what was currently known about psychology and human behaviour at this time. (Most of the information here can be found in the opening section of the Hock book, under the title but before the theoretical proposition.)