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An obsessive-compulsive person who was told that everyone was required to wear shoes at all times in the house and not to vacuum for a week would be experiencing what therapy procedures

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They would be doing Systematic Desensitization. This is when they are exposing themselves to their fears without doing the compulsions to try and gradually overcome the fear altogether. 
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