Quiz 8 Flashcards
Preventions targeted at increasing personal resources and coping skills are called ______________-focused prevention techniques.
competency
In Ellis’s rational-emotive therapy, the idea that emotions are directly caused by events is challenged. Instead, emotions are attributed to ________.
beliefs
The therapist pairs a stimulus that is attractive (but deviant or self-defeating) to the client with a noxious UCS, in an attempt to reduce an unwanted behaviour in ____________________ therapy.
Aversion
A client has been under a lot of stress lately. To ensure that stress does not take the better of them, the client approaches stress by increasing their personal resources and coping skills. This preventive approach is known as __________.
Comptency-focused prevention
Carl Rogers was convinced that the most important curative agent in psychotherapy is ________.
the relationship between client and therapist
The text makes all of the following recommendations with regard to psychotherapy, EXCEPT ________.
-choosing a therapist who is fully trained and licensed
-selecting a therapist with whom you have a good working relationship
-having specific agreed-upon goals that guide the therapy process
-selecting a different therapist if you experience any emotional pain
selecting a different therapist if you experience any emotional pain
A surgeon performs a surgical procedure on clients, in which the surgeon cuts a small fibre bundle near the corpus callosum. This severs the frontal lobe’s connection with the limbic system. What is this procedure called?
Cingulotomy
A client has a fear of dogs. The client is receiving therapy in which they must be in the same room with a friendly dog and not retreat. In this therapy, preventing the client from retreating at the sight of a dog is ________.
response prevention
A client is seeing an analyst for treatment of anxiety. After a few sessions, the client transfers feeling of intense affection and dependency to the analyst. This is known as __________.
positive transference
The ‘gestalt’ in Fritz Perls’s humanistic approach refers to ________.
perceptual principles through which people actively organize stimulus elements into meaningful “whole” patterns
The fact that most forms of therapy yield comparable effectiveness results is referred to as the ________.
Dodo bird verdict
Virtual reality involves using ________ to create realistic environments that evoke many of the same reactions that a comparable real-world environment would.
computer technology
A client is working with a therapist to treat their depression. The therapist points out how most of the reactions appear to be produced by thoughts such as, “because the partner broke up with me, no one will ever love me!” The therapist helps the client to identify when this previously automatic thought is present and suggests that they come up with some way of challenging this conclusion. The client most likely has a therapist who is using ________.
client-centered therapy
A client was recently put on an ____________ drug and is now experiencing side effects such as nervousness, insomnia, and sweating.
Anti-depressants
The technique called ______________ allows researchers to simultaneously examine many different research studies and to draw conclusions about the overall effectiveness of a particular treatment.
meta-analysis
