AP Psychology - Therapies

Question 1

psychotherapy

Answer 1

treatment involving psychological techniques such as interactions between trained therapist and patient

Question 2

biomedical therapy

Answer 2

prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on person’s physiology

Question 3

eclectic approach

Answer 3

depends on client’s problems; uses techniques from various forms of therapy

Question 4

psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud)

Answer 4

theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and conflicts; treatment = exposing and interpreting unconscious tensions

Question 5

resistance

Answer 5

blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material (changing the subject, joking, etc.)

Question 6

interpretation

Answer 6

noting dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events to promote insight

Question 7

psychodynamic therapy

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psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences

Question 8

insight therapies

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increasing awareness of underlying motives and defenses, promotes growth (humanistic)

Question 9

client-centered therapy

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developed by Carl Rogers; therapist uses active listening with a genuine, accepting, and empathetic environment to facilitate client’s growth

Question 10

active listening

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paraphrase, reflect feelings, and invite clarification; unconditional positive regard

Question 11

counterconditioning

Answer 11

behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors

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exposure therapy

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behavioral techniques that treat anxiety by exposing people to their fears

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systematic desensitization

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exposure therapy that associates a pleasant state with anxiety-triggering stimuli

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aversive conditioning

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counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state with unwanted behavior

Question 15

rational-emotive behavior therapy

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confrontational cognitive therapy that vigorously challenges people’s illogical and self-defeating attitudes (Albert Ellis)

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cognitive-behavioral therapy

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changes thinking and behavior

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group therapy

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therapy conducted in groups

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family therapy

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treating a family as a system; views individual’s unwanted behaviors as influenced by or directed at family

Question 19

token economy

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conditioning with rewards

Question 20

antianxiety drugs

Answer 20

drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 21

antipsychotic drugs

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drugs used to treat schizophrenia and severe thought disorders

Question 22

antidepressants

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used for anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD; increases norepinephrine or serotonin

Question 23

mood-stabilizing medication

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lithium and depakote, treats for bipolar disorder

Question 24

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

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biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient

Question 25

repetitve transcranial magnetic stimulation

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repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to suppress brain activity to produce no memory loss, seizures, and other side effects

Question 26

psychosurgery

Answer 26

surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior

Question 27

lobotomy

Answer 27

psychosurgical procedure that cuts the nerves connecting frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain; decreased misery but produced an uncreative and immature person