Exam 3 - Chapter 11

Question 1

Clinical therapy targets ____ or ____.

Answer 1

Behavior directly or the underlying causes of behavior

Question 2

Projective techniques attempt to assess…

Answer 2

An underlying cause of a mental health issue

Question 3

Clinicians may think people into ____.

Answer 3

Healthy acting

Question 4

Clinicians may act people into…

Answer 4

Healthy thinking

Question 5

Behavioral therapists manage ____ in order to manage or improve behavior.

Answer 5

Response-consequence contingencies

Question 6

Psychoanalysts are…

Answer 6

Nomothetic

Question 7

Humanists are…

Answer 7

Idiographic

Question 8

____ are directive and interpret.

Answer 8

Psychoanalysts / psychotherapists

Question 9

____ are nondirective and listen with empathy.

Answer 9

Humanists

Question 10

Behavioral therapists practice ____ positive regard.

Answer 10

Conditional

Question 11

Humanists practice ____ positive regard.

Answer 11

Unconditional

Question 12

Psychoanalysis

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Freud’s therapeutic technique, where analysis of free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences released previously repressed feelings

Question 13

Unconscious conflicts

Question 14

Id

Question 15

Ego

Question 16

Superego

Question 17

Free association

Question 18

Dream interpretation

Question 19

Resistance

Answer 19

The blocking from consciousness of anxiety-causing material

Question 20

Transference

Answer 20

The patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

Question 21

Catharsis

Answer 21

The idea that “releasing” aggressive energy relieves aggressive urges

Question 22

Past focus

Question 23

Neo-Freudians

Question 24

Interpersonal therapy (IPT)

Question 25

Sigmund Freud pushed...

Answer 25

Psychoanalysis

Question 26

Carl Rogers pushed...

Answer 26

Humanistic therapy

Question 27

Humanistic therapy

Question 28

Client-centered

Question 29

Nondirective

Question 30

Unconditional positive regard

Answer 30

A caring, accepting, nonjudgemental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help clients develop self-awareness and self-acceptance

Question 31

Present focus

Question 32

Behavior therapies

Answer 32

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination unwanted behaviors

Question 33

Classical conditioning

Answer 33

A process where previously neutral stimuli come to elicit autonomic responses

Question 34

Counterconditioning

Answer 34

Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

Question 35

Exposure therapies

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Behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

Question 36

Systemic desensitization

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A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli

Question 37

Implosive therapy

Question 38

List three methods of exposure therapy.

Answer 38

1. Systemic desensitization 2. Implosive therapy 3. Virtual reality exposure

Question 39

Aversive conditioning

Answer 39

Associates an unpleasant state with an unwanted behavior

Question 40

Operant conditioning

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Voluntary behavior comes to be controlled by consequences following its occurrence

Question 41

Contingency management

Question 42

Token economies

Answer 42

An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges

Question 43

Cognitive therapies

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

Question 44

Cognitive behavioral therapy

Answer 44

A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy

Question 45

Erroneous thinking

Question 46

Selective abstraction

Question 47

Overgeneralization

Question 48

Arbitrary interference

Question 49

Magnification

Question 50

Minimization

Question 51

Personalization

Question 52

Absolutistic thinking

Question 53

Social skills training

Question 54

Group therapy

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Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction

Question 55

Family therapy

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Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at other family members

Question 56

How do you evaluate the clients in psychotherapy?

Question 57

How do you evaluate the clincians in psychotherapy?

Question 58

How do you evaluate which psychotherapies work best?

Question 59

Therapeutic alliance

Answer 59

A bond of trust and mutual understanding betweem a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client's problem

Question 60

Biomedical therapies

Answer 60

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's psychology

Question 61

List four examples of drug therapies.

Question 62

List three examples of brain stimulation and psychosurgery.

Question 63

List the five parts of positive psychology (PERMA).

Question 64

Listening has five levels, with ____ at the top.

Answer 64

Empathic listening

Question 65

Humanistic therapies help clients...

Answer 65

Reduce the gap between their perceived real and ideal self

Question 66

Mary Cover Jones eliminated little Peter's fear of rabbits with...

Answer 66

Counterconditioning

Question 67

How do exposure therapies eliminate phobias?

Answer 67

They expose the person to the source of fear

Question 68

The stimulus that first elicited fear is the...

Answer 68

UCS

Question 69

Systemic desensitization substitutes relaxation for...

Answer 69

Fear or the conditioned emotional response

Question 70

Cognitive therapists help their clients...

Answer 70

Substitute positive thinking for irrational or unhealthy thinking

Question 71

Group therapy provides ____ and ____.

Answer 71

Interpersonal empathy and supportive listeners