Therapy

Question 1

Psychotherapy

Answer 1

The treatment of psychological problems through psychological techniques

Question 2

Placebo effect

Answer 2

Nonspecific improvement resulting from a person’s expectations to change

Question 3

Eclectic approach to therapy

Answer 3

integrating many different theories and tequniques

Question 4

Good therapists communicate…

Answer 4

interest, understanding, respect, tact, maturity, ability to help

Question 5

What type of therapy did Freud adopt?

Answer 5

Insight therapy

Question 6

What is the goal of psychoanalysis?

Answer 6

To help patients understand the unconscious motivations behind their behaviours

Question 7

What are the 5 techniques of psychoanalysis?

Answer 7

1. free association
2. dream analysis
3. interpretation
4. resistance
5. transference

Question 8

Humanistic Therapy emphasizes…

Answer 8

the development of human potential

Question 9

Person-centered therapy was created by…

Answer 9

Carl Rogers

Question 10

Person-centred therapy

Answer 10

when a therapist guides their client to help them but doesn’t tell them outright

Question 11

Client-centred therapists must show…

Answer 11

unconditional positive regard, congruence, empathetic listening

Question 12

Behaviour therapy focuses on..

Answer 12

changing overt behaviour

Question 13

Behaviour therapy

Answer 13

helps people replace maladaptive behaviours with more effective ones

Question 14

Operant conditioning

Answer 14

A method of learning that uses reward and punishment as a reinforcer for behaviour

Question 15

Token economies

Answer 15

Rewarding with tokens that they can buy with or trade in for items

Question 16

Extinction

Answer 16

Ignore the behaviour and it will go away

Question 17

Punishment

Answer 17

The presentation of an aversive stimulus

Question 18

Time Out

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The removal of a person from sources of reinforcement to decrease behaviour

Question 19

Counterconditioning is form of _______ therapy

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Exposure

Question 20

Counterconditioning

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When someone is taught a new, more adaptive response to a stimulus

Question 21

Systematic Desensitization is used in…

Answer 21

Exposure therapy

Question 22

Aversive conditioning

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When a noxious stimulus is paired with a stimulus that elicits an undesirable behaviour

Question 23

What is aversive conditioning used to treat?

Answer 23

Nail biting, sex adiction, smoking, drinking etc

Question 24

Modelling

Answer 24

Seeing someone else do the behaviour your scared of will help eliminate fears

Question 25

Cognitive behaviour therapy

Answer 25

Focuses on changing client behaviour by changing thoughts and perceptions

Question 26

Rational Emotive Therapy

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Emphasizes the importance of logical, rational thought processes

Question 27

What does Aaron Back claim?

Answer 27

Depression is caused by people’s distorted thoughts about reality