PSY120 -- Chapter 15

Question 1

Psychotherapy

Answer 1

Treatment designed to help people deal with mental, emotional, or behavioral problems

Question 2

Biomedical Therapies

Answer 2

Biologically based treatments for reducing or eliminating the symptoms of psychological disorders

Question 3

Antipsychotic Drugs

Answer 3

Medications that reduce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Question 4

Antidepressant Drugs

Answer 4

Medications that modulate the availability or effectiveness of the neurotransmitters implicated in mood disorders

Question 5

Antianxiety Drugs

Answer 5

Medications that reduce tension and anxiety

Question 6

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Answer 6

A treatment used primarily for depression in which a brief electric current is delivered to the brain

Question 7

Psychosurgery

Answer 7

Surgery that destroys or alters tissues in the brain in an effort to affect behavior

Question 8

Insight Therapies

Answer 8

Treatments designed to give clients self-knowledge into the contents of their thought processes

Question 9

Psychoanalysis

Answer 9

Freud’s method of treatment that attempts to bring hidden impulses and memories, which are locked in the unconscious, to the surface of awareness, thereby freeing the patient from disordered thoughts and behaviors