Modules 53-55 (Lecture 13)

Question 1

Psychotherapy

Answer 1

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Question 2

Biomedical Theraphy

Answer 2

Prescribed medication or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology.

Question 3

Eclectic Approach

Answer 3

An approach to psychotherapy that uses techniques from various forms of therapy.

Question 4

Psychoanalysis

Answer 4

Freud’s therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient’s free associations, dreams, and transferences– and the analyst’s interpretations of them– released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.

Question 5

Resistance

Answer 5

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.

Question 6

Interpretation

Answer 6

In psychoanalysis, the analyst’s nothing of supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors, and events in order to promote insight.

Question 7

Transference

Answer 7

In psychoanalysis, the patient’s transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)

Question 8

Psychodynamic Therapy

Answer 8

therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition; views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-insight.

Question 9

Insight Therapies

Answer 9

Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing a person’s awareness of underlying motives and defenses.

Question 10

Person-centered Therapy

Answer 10

A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within an accepting, genuine, empathic environment to facilitate clients’ growth.

Question 11

Active Listening

Answer 11

Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and seeks clarification. A feature of Rogers’ person-centered therapy.

Question 12

Unconditional Positive Regard

Answer 12

A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl Rogers believed would help people develop self-awareness and self-acceptance.

Question 13

Behavior Therapy

Answer 13

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors.

Question 14

Counterconditioning

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Exposure Therapies

Answer 15

behavioral techniques that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear or avoid.

Question 16

Systemic Desensitization

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy

Answer 17

A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking.

Question 18

Aversive Conditioning

Answer 18

Associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)

Question 19

Token Economy

Answer 19

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

Question 20

Cognitive Therapy

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Cognitive-behavioral Therapy (CBT)

Answer 21

A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy with behavior therapy.

Question 22

Group Therapy

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Family Therapy

Answer 23

therapy that treats people in the context of their family system. Views an individual’s unwanted behaviors as influences by, directed at other family members

Question 24

Confirmation Bias

Answer 24

A tendency to search for information that supports our preconceptions and to ignore or distort contradictory evidence

Question 25

Meta-analysis

Answer 25

A statistical procedure for analyzing of multiple studies to reach an overall conclusion.

Question 26

Evidence-based practice

Answer 26

clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences.

Question 27

Therapeutic Alliance

Answer 27

A bond of trust and mutual understanding between a therapist and client, who work together constructively to overcome the client’s problems.

Question 28

Biomedical therapy

Answer 28

Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person’s physiology

Question 29

Psychopharmacolgy

Answer 29

The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior

Question 30

Antipsychotic Drugs

Answer 30

Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorders.

Question 31

Anti Anxiety Drugs

Answer 31

Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation

Question 32

Antidepressant Drugs

Answer 32

Drugs used to treat depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, OCD and related disorders, and PTSD

Question 33

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)

Answer 34

The application of repeated pulses of magnetic energy to the brain; used to stimulate or suppress brain activity

Question 35

Psychosurgery

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Lobotomy

Answer 36

A psychosurgical procedure once used to calme uncontrollably emotional or violent patents. the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain.

Question 37

Posttraumatic Growth

Answer 37

Positive psychological changes following a struggles with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises

Question 38

Rumination

Answer 38

Repetitive thinking or dwelling on negative thoughts or topics.