Treatment of Abnormal Behavior

Question 1

PSYCHOANALYSIS

Answer 1

Freudian therapy designed to bring unconscious conflicts, which usually date back to childhood
experiences, into consciousness.

Question 2

COGNITIVE THERAPY

Answer 2

Therapy that treats problem behaviors and mental processes by focusing on faulty thought processes
and beliefs.

Question 3

RATIONAL EMOTIVE THERAPY

Answer 3

Albert Ellis’s cognitive therapy to eliminate emotional problems through the rational examination of
irrational beliefs.

Question 4

HUMANISTIC THERAPY

Answer 4

Focuses on removing obstacles that block personal growth and potential

Question 5

CLIENT-CENTERED THERAPY

Answer 5

Carl Rogers’s therapy emphasizing the client’s natural tendency to become healthy and productive.
Key techniques include empathy, unconditional positive regard, and active listening.

Question 6

BEHAVIOR THERAPY

Answer 6

Group of techniques that use the principles of classical conditioning, operant learning, and
observational learning to modify maladaptive behaviors.

Question 7

SYSTEMATIC DESENSITIZATION

Answer 7

A gradual process of extinguishing a learned phobia by working through a hierarchy of fear-evoking
stimuli while staying deeply relaxed.

Question 8

AVERSION THERAPY

Answer 8

Uses the principles of classical conditioning to create anxiety by pairing an aversive stimulus with a
maladaptive behavior.

Question 9

BIOMEDICAL THERAPY

Answer 9

Uses drugs and electroconvulsive therapy to treat psychological disorders.