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Question 1

Cognitive therapy

Answer 1

Therapy that teaches people, new more adaptive ways of thinking and acting, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions

Question 2

Counter conditioning

Answer 2

Behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors including exposure therapies and aversive conditioning

Question 3

Cognitive behavior therapy

Answer 3

A popular integrated therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

Question 4

Exposure therapies

Answer 4

Behavioral techniques such as systematic desensitization that treat anxiety by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

Question 6

Virtual reality exposure therapy

Answer 6

An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to stimulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking

Question 7

Family therapy

Answer 7

Therapy that treats the family as a systems views am individuals unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members

Question 8

Token economy

Answer 8

Operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats

Question 11

Systematic desensitization

Answer 11

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias

Question 12

Aversive conditioning

Answer 12

A type of counter conditioning that associates an unpleasant state such as nausea with an unwanted behavior such as drinking