Abnormal, Clinical, Personality

Question 1

Those who engage in spurts of excessive overeating, followed by remorse– but do not purge, or fast–are said to have ___________

Answer 1

Binge-eating disorder: is a serious eating disorder in which you frequently consume unusually large amounts of food and feel unable to stop eating.

Question 2

In order to understand his patients’ repressed conflicts, Freud sought to identify the ________ of their dreams.

Answer 2

Answer: latent content
Difference between latent content and manifest content:
The manifest content is the actual literal subject matter of the dream while the latent content is the underlying meaning of these symbols.

Question 3

Transference refers to a client’s:

Answer 3

Transference in therapy is the act of the client unknowingly transferring feelings about someone from their past onto the therapist.

Question 4

Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, __________ therapies try to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment.

Answer 4

humanistic

Question 5

An important feature of client-centered therapy is:

Answer 5

active listening

Question 6

Psychological research on the principles of learning (i.e., classical and operant conditioning) has most directly influenced the development of:

Answer 6

behavior therapies

Question 7

A procedure that trains people to make new responses to stimuli that currently trigger unwanted responses is called:

Answer 7

Unconditional positive regard: involves showing complete support and acceptance of a person no matter what that person says or does. The therapist accepts and supports the client, no matter what they say or do, placing no conditions on this acceptance. That means the therapist supports the client, whether they are expressing “good” behaviors and emotions or “bad” ones.

Question 8

The construction of an anxiety hierarchy and training in relaxation are important aspects of:

Answer 8

systematic desensitization:
Systematic desensitization is used to treat extreme aversions through a combination of graded exposure and relaxation. It is an evidence-based behavioral intervention that is focused on helping clients overcome common fears or phobias.

Question 9

The technique in which a person is asked to report everything that comes to his or her mind is called ________

Answer 9

free association

Question 10

Which drugs are designed to depress central nervous system activity?

Answer 10

antianxiety drugs

Question 11

Selective-serotonin-reuptake-inhibitors (SSRIs) are frequently prescribed for the treatment of:

Answer 11

depression

Question 12

Which of the following treatments is most likely to be used only with severely depressed patients who have not responded to drug therapy?

Answer 12

Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is a medical treatment most commonly used in patients with severe major depression or bipolar disorder that has not responded to other treatments. ECT involves a brief electrical stimulation of the brain while the patient is under anesthesia.

Question 13

Psychosurgery most commonly involves:

Answer 13

removing or destroying brain tissue

Question 14

Light exposure therapy is a treatment method for which of the following?

Answer 14

SAD: Seasonal affective disorder: This type of depression is related to changes in seasons and begins and ends at about the same times every year.

Question 15

According to Freud, the unconscious is:

Answer 15

the thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, of which we are largely unaware.

Question 16

According to psychoanalytic theory, boys’ fear of castration is most closely associated with:

Answer 16

Oedipus Complex: The attachment of the child to the parent of the opposite sex, accompanied by envious and aggressive feelings toward the parent of the same sex.