PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY

Question 1

Focus of Bowenian family therapy

model? (2x)

Answer 1

Differentiation from family and being

true self in the face of their pressures.

Question 2

Animal in experiment gets benzo and
fear extinction procedure is successful.
When medication is stopped, initial fear
response returns. Type of learning? (2x)

Answer 2

State-dependent

Question 3

Abused child hides at sound of front
door even after the abusive parent is
imprisoned. Which learning model
explains this response? (2x)

Answer 3

Classical conditioning

Question 4

Energetic, Hyperactive 5 yo. Mom puts in
soccer to learn rules and limits. Thomas
and Chess temperamental
characteristic? (2x)

Answer 4

Activity

Question 5

Child gets 90% on test but feels like
failure for not getting 100%. Cognitive
distortion? (2x)

Answer 5

Absolutistic thinking

Question 6

5 yo falls and scrapes knee and mom

applies bandage. Why does it help?

Answer 6

Address the threat to physical integrity

Question 7

Psychosocial crisis during toilet training

according to Erik Erikson

Answer 7

Autonomy vs shame and doubt

Question 8

Young child tells coach that he doesn’t want
to play basketball anymore because of
missing a basket during the game, and he is
not as good as the other kids. Stage of
development?

Answer 8

Industry vs inferiority

Question 9

“Primary maternal preoccupation” per

Winnicott means?

Answer 9

Mother turns inwards engaging in fantasy

about baby in womb

Question 10

What statements made by 5 y.o. girl show
management of guilty feelings about
Oedipal victory over adoptive mother?

Answer 10

Never wanting to get married, have
children, or comments about adoptive
mother being better than biological mother

Question 11

What type of internal tension exists for a
student who wants to score well on an
exam, but also wants to spend the weekend
partying?

Answer 11

Cognitive dissonance

Question 12

Initial response when child is separated
from primary caretaker according to
Bowlby’s theory of attachment?

Answer 12

Protest

Question 13

Describe the Explanatory Model of Illness

per Arthur Kleinman?

Answer 13

Etiology of illness as understood or

perceived by patient, relatives, caretakers

Question 14

Who is considered one of the founders of

Child psychoanalysis?

Answer 14

Anna Freud

Question 15

In infant psychiatry, from work by Fraiberg,
parents’ view of baby and role of parenting
comes from?

Answer 15

Parents’ memories with their own primary

caregivers

Question 16

Child at supermarket parking lot is bitten
by a dog. Now child will not go to
supermarket. Why?

Answer 16

Parking lot represents conditioned

stimulus

Question 17

What approach reinforces less preferred
behaviors by increasing access to preferred
behaviors?

Answer 17

Premack Principle

Question 18

Term by Margaret Mahler to describe
developmental phase when mother is seen
to have a unique identity by child?

Answer 18

Differentiation

Question 19

Term by Margaret Mahler to describe
infants beginning to differentiate from
mother after symbiosis?

Answer 19

Hatching

Question 20

Who developed the concept of the
transitional object, such as a blanket, to
help with separation and individuation?

Answer 20

Donald Winnicott

Question 21

What is considered the conditioned
stimulus when a young child is stung by a
bee at a park, then cries when asked to go
to a park, and avoids parks completely?

Answer 21

The park

Question 22

How do children learn best, according to

psychologist, Lev Vygotsky?

Answer 22

Skills taught are just beyond current level

Question 23

Why do negative emotional reactions
happen to depressed patients, according to
cognitive psychology?

Answer 23

Automatic perceptions

Question 24

What sociobiological behavior concept that
describes the thriving of a species at the
expense of an individual organism, is also a
defense mechanism?

Answer 24

Altruism

Question 25

In ego psychology, reason why children

blame others when they get in trouble?

Answer 25

Defense against painful affects

Question 26

Core developmental concept of Winnicott?

Answer 26

Infant-caregiver dyad is an emotionally

facilitating force in development

Question 27

What is typical in children, according to self

psychology?

Answer 27

Narcissism