General Psych Exam 4 – Flashcards
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dissociative identity disorder
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represents a way to cope with extreme abuse or trauma that occurred during childhood
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people who use stable, internal, and global explanations for negative events:
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have a pessimistic explanatory style
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positive schizphrenia
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primary goal of psychoanalysis is to
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bring unconscious conflicts to conscious awareness to help the person gain insight into conflicts and resolve them.
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token economies have been used in which settings
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institutional setting such as psychiatric hospitals, classrooms, juvenile correctional facilities and prisons
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eclectic psychotherapists is one who:
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carefully tailors his or her treatment program to the particular client's problems, utilizing techniques from different psychotherapy approaches
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borderline personality disorder
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A personality disorder characterized by repeated instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and mood and by impulsive behavior
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client-centered therapist ideally should demonstrate:
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genuineness, unconditional positive regard, and empathic understanding
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most therapists today identify their approach or orientation as:
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eclectic
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Regarding the Type A behavior pattern, most health psychologists today would agree that:
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a sense of hostility is strongly linked to the development of heart disease, while time urgency, competitiveness, and achievement motivation are not.
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Which of the following are the four emotion-focused coping strategies discussed in your textbook?
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denial, distancing, seeking social support, and positive reappraisal
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Psychologist Janice Kiecolt-Glaser is known for:
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research demonstrating that even minor stressors, such as taking exams, can reduce the effectiveness of immune system functioning.
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The most damaging component of the Type A behavior pattern appears to be:
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hostility
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The relationship between psychological factors and illness, stress, and coping are all topics that are studied in the field of _____, which is guided by the _____ model.
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health psychology; biopsychosocial
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Walter Cannon identified an endocrine pathway involving _____ in the stress response
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the adrenal medulla
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Hans Selye identified an endocrine pathway involving _____ in the stress response.
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the adrenal cortex (where prolonged stress, or chronic stress is triggered)
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According to your text, which pattern of adaptation is taken by the person who lacks cultural and psychological contact with both her traditional cultural group and her new, adopted culture?
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margnalization
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which of the following is the BEST definition of stress?
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a negative emotional state that occurs when events are perceived as exceeding a person's resources or ability to cope
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Prolonged stress, or chronic stress, triggers the production of _____ by the _____.
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corticosteroids; adrenal cortex
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when under stress common stimulants like nicotine and caffeine:
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should be avoided
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Sigmund Freud created techniques based on psychoanalysis like
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free association, interpretation, transference
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which of the following criteria should new therapies meet before being put into widespread use?
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The effectiveness of new therapies should be tested empirically, and they should work better than a placebo treatment.
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The term eclecticism refers to:
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the integrated use of techniques from different psychotherapy approaches.
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Psychotropic medications that are more effective in treating the negative symptoms of schizophrenia are called:
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atypical antipsychotics.
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behavior therapy
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therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
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The first effective antipsychotic medications were:
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reserpine and chlorpromazine.
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MAO inhibitors, tricyclics, and SSRIs are all types of:
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antidepressant medications
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Dr. Luanda is being trained to treat his clients by encouraging them to empirically test the accuracy of their beliefs and assumptions. Dr. Luanda is being trained in:
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cognitive therapy
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is based upon the assumption that thoughts, emotional responses, and behaviors all interact and influence each other?
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cognitive-behavioral therapy
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Catharsis
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Refers to the emotional release that people experience from simply talking about their problems.
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You are thinking about entering psychotherapy. It is reasonable for you to expect that your therapist will:
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challenge how you think and act
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What do systematic desensitization and virtual reality therapy have in common?
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both are based on principles of classical conditioning
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Dr. Medici
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biomedical therapy
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Dr. Molan
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psychotherapy
