CHAPTER 15/16

Question 1

A psychological intervention designed to help people resolve
emotional, behavioural, and interpersonal problems and improve the quality of life

Answer 1

Psychotherapy

Question 2

Who DOES NOT provide Psychotherapy
1.Clinical psychologists
2.psychiatrists
3. counsellors
4. Teachers

Answer 2

Teachers

Question 3

Psychotherapy can help everyone even if its minimal (TRUE/FALSE)

Answer 3

TRUE (generally seen as beneficial but depends on circumstances)

Question 4

“self-help” is a good form of Psychotherapy (TRUE/FALSE)

Answer 4

FALSE (accessible but unreliable, placebo, easy fixes for long term problems)

Question 5

_______ is when the goal to make the unconscious
conscious, recover repressed
impulses, conflicts, and
memories

Answer 5

Psychoanalysis

Question 6

Which of the following are methods of Psychoanalysis:
1. Free association
2. Dream analysis
3. Meditation
4. Resistance
5. Excersizing
6. Transference
7. Working through

Answer 6

Free association
Dream analysis
Resistance
Transference
Working through

Question 7

Psychoanalysis that is More focused on conscious aspects
* Considers greater range of needs
(not just sex and aggression)
* Considers greater range of
influences (culture, interpersonal)
is

Answer 7

Neo Freudian (majority) Psychoanalysis

Question 8

Some criticisms of Psychoanalysis include

Answer 8

Non-falsifiable
* Weak support for theories
* Ineffective

Question 9

a type of therapy that involves: develop potential, creativity,
authenticity, grow into loving and responsible person,
focus on today

Answer 9

Humanistic therapy

Question 10

Who is responsible for person-centered psychotherapy:

Answer 10

Carl Rogers

Question 11

A method in which the Therapist should be authentic/genuine, show empathy,
and how unconditional positive regard
*Focus is on self-acceptance adaptive behaviour in the
present is

Answer 11

Person-Centered Therapy

Question 12

A type of therapy that”
- Aim to integrate differing and sometimes
opposing aspects of our personality into
a unified sense of self
- Utilizes two-chair technique
is known as

Answer 12

Gestalt Therapy

Question 13

_______ ______Refers to therapies that treat more
than one person at a time

Answer 13

Group Therapies

Question 14

______ Therapy tries to Confront clients with what
they fear with the goal of reducing the fear

Answer 14

Exposure therapy

Question 15

______ Therapists focus on specific problem
behaviours and the variables that maintain them,
uses learning and conditioning

Answer 15

Behavioural therapists

Question 16

_____ Therapy tries to gradually increase
exposure to stimulus, pairing with relaxation

Answer 16

Systematic desensitization

Question 17

______ Therapy tries to begin with intense exposure to
stimulus for prolonged period

Answer 17

Flooding

Question 18

treatments that attempt to replace maladaptive or irrational cognitions with
more adaptive, rational cognitions (change cognition to change behaviours)

Answer 18

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapies

Question 19

_______ _________ Therapy shows that the consequences of an event depends on our beliefs
about that event

Answer 19

Rational Emotive Therapy

Question 20

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is superior in effectiveness than psychodynamic and humanistic therapies (TRUE/FALSE)

Answer 20

TRUE (More effective than no or placebo
treatment
-More effective than psychodynamic and
humanistic therapies
-At least as effective as drug therapies for
depression)

Question 21

___________ is the Use of medications to alter
brain chemistry and alleviate symptoms

Answer 21

Psychopharmacotherapy

Question 22

Are biomedical treatments for mental disorders risky? (TRUE/FALSE)

Answer 22

Major side effects, some permanent
Concerns about drug interactions, safety
Need to consider traditional therapy as well

Question 23

________ Therapy is when patients receive brief electrical
pulses to the brain that produce a seizure;
done under anaesthesia
6-10 treatments given three times a week

Answer 23

Electroconvulsive Therapy
(ECT)

Question 24

______ is simply Brain surgery to treat psychological
disorders

Answer 24

Psychosurgery

Question 25

Examples of Psychosurgery include:

Answer 25

Prefrontal and transorbital lobotomies over/used in
mid 20th century
May in rare cases remove parts of the brain or
cause lesions
Used today as an absolute last resort with a
handful of conditions (severe OCD, depression,
bipolar disorders)