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Psychology Exam 4 #2 – Flashcards

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Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are most likely to be treated with

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psychotherapy

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Mental health therapies that involve prescribed drugs or other procedures that act directly on a patients nervous systems are

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Biomedical therapies

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A therapist who takes an eclectic approach is one who

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Uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic approaches

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The first psychological therapy was introduced by

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Sigmund Freud

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A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is

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Free associations

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According to psychoanalysts, resistance refers to the

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Blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material during therapy

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An important component of psychoanalysis is

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Dream analysis

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To understand his patients' repressed conflicts, Freud sought to identify the _____ of their dreams

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Latent content

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Which form of therapy is most likely to be criticized for offering interpretations that cannot be proven or disproven

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psychoanalysis

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Psychodynamic therapy is ____ than traditional psychoanalysis

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briefer

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Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends

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Interpersonal psychotherapy

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Unlike psychoanalytic therapists, humanistic therapists tend to focus on the ____ more than the ____.

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Present; past

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Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, ____ therapies seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment

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humanistic

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Empathic understanding of the patient's subjective experiences is a major goal of a

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Client-centered therapist

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Carl Rogers referred to a caring, nonjudgmental attitude as

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Unconditional positive regard

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A procedure that trains people to make new responses to stimuli that currently trigger unwanted responses is called

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Counterconditioning

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Systematic desensitization is a form of ____, which is a type of ____.

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Counterconditioning; behavior therapy

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A token economy is to operant conditioning as ___ is to classical conditioning.

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Systematic desensitization

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Gina is so fearful of taking tests for college courses that she experiences mild anxiety when registering for a course, intense anxiety when studying for a test, and extreme anziety when answering actual test questions. Her greatest fear, however, is experienced while waiting for a professor to and out tests. During the process of systematically desensitizing her test anxiety, the therapist is likely to ask Gina first to imagine.

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Registering for a college course

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Which of the following techniques have behavior therapists used to help people overcome a fear of flying?

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Virtual reality exposure therapy

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Virtual reality exposure therapy is a form of

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Systematic desensitization

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In treating alcohol dependency, therapists have clients consume alcohol that contains a nausea-producing drug.

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Aversive conditioning

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Connor is constantly chewing tobacco. To reduce his appetite for this product, a behavior therapist would most likely use

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Aversive conditioning

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Therapists practice ______ by using positive reinforces to reward closer and closer approximations of a desired behavior.

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Behavior modification

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Which of the following is the best description of behavior modification?

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Patients' actions are influenced by controlling the consequences of those actions

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A token economy represents an application of the principles of

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Operant conditioning

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The assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions is most clearly central to

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Cognitive therapies

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Cognitive therapists would be most likely to encourage depressed clients to

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Stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control

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Dylan is a second-year undergraduate who feels so incompetent that he believes his life is worthless and hopeless. Dylan would profit the most from

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Beck's cognitive therapy

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Group therapy is typically more effective than individual therapy for

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Enabling people to discover that others have problems similar to their own

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Which form of therapy is most likely to emphasize the importance of examining a person's role within a social system?

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Family therapy

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By overestimating the actual benefits of their psychotherapeutic threatment, clients are most likely attempting to satisfy their motivation for

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Self-justification

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The placebo effect refers to

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The beneficial consequences of merely expecting that a treatment will be effective

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In the 1950s, Hans Eysenck challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy because it appeared to be

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No more beneficial than no treatment at all

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Research has shown that clients' level of satisfaction with psychotherapy

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Is unrelated to the level of training and experience of their therapists

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Ron is a 22-year-old mechanic who suffers from claustrophobia. The most effect way to treat Ron's problem would involve _____ therapy.

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Behavior

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Rapidly moving one's eyes while recalling traumatic experiences is most descriptive of

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EMDR

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Light exposure therapy was developed to relieve symptoms of

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Depression

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Psychologist with expertise in research, the assessment of psychological disorders. And the practice of psychotherapy are typically

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Clinical psychologists

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Psychopharmacology involves the study of how

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Drugs affect mind and behavior

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One group of ocean voyagers is given a new but untested pill for seasickness and a second group is given an inactive pill. Neither the voyagers nor the experimental researchers know which group has received the new pill. In this experiment, the investigators are making use of

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The double-blind technique

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Double-blind studies enable researchers to assess the extent to which drug therapy outcomes are attributable to

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The placebo effect

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Xanax and Ativan are ____ drugs.

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Antianxiety

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Xanax would most likely be prescribed in order to help

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Jerome overcome feelings of nervous apprehension and an inability to relax.

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Which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from Prozac?

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Shannon, who feels helpless and apathetic and thinks her life is meaningless and worthless

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Psychosurgery involves

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Removing or destroying brain tissue

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Professor Bensfield emphasizes that recovery from bipolar disorder involves a continuous interplay among patients' physical reactions to mood-stabilizing drugs, their positive expectations that their lives will improve, and the supportive responses of patients' families and friends. The professor's emphasis best illustrates a(n) ______ approach to therapy.

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Biopsychosocial

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Dr. Judd is convinced that psychological disorders result largely from stressful social situations rather than from disturbances within the individual personality. Dr. Judd's belief is most consistent with the assumptions that underlie

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Preventive mental health

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Preventive mental health attempts to reduce the incidence of psychological disorders by

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Establishing programs to alleviate poverty and other demoralizing situations

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Transference refers to a client's

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Expression toward a therapist of feelings linked with earlier life relationships

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Lynn has begun to buy small gifts for her therapist, and she feels extremely jealous of the time he spends with his other patients. To a psychoanalyst, this is most indicative of

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Transference

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Humanistic therapists are likely to teach clients to

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Take more responsibility for their own feelings and actions

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Carl Rogers encouraged client-centered therapists to ____ during the process of therapy.

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Genuinely express their own true feelings

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The healing power of insight and self-awareness is LEAST likely to be emphasized by _____ therapists.

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Behavior

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Systematic desensitization involves

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Associating a pleasant relaxed state with anxiety-arousing stimuli.

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In a therapeutic setting, a client who wants to lose weight eats some favorite foods laced with a nausea-producing drug. Yet, outside the therapist's office, the client knows he or she can eat those foods without fear of nausea. This awareness contributes to the limited effectiveness of

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Aversive conditioning

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Reinforcing desired behaviors and withholding reinforcement for undesired behaviors is most central to the process of

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Behavior modification

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Several years after his wife's death, Mr. Stattler remains incapacitated by feelings of guilt and sadness. To reduce Mr. Stattler's depression, a therapist is actively encouraging him to stop blaming himself for not being able to prevent his wife's death. The therapist's approach is most representative of

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Cognitive therapy

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Stress inoculation training focuses on helping people to

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Replace negative self-talk with more positive comments

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Which form of psychotherapy is LEAST likely to occur in therapist-led small groups?

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Psychoanalysis

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People often enter psychotherapy during a period of crisis in their lives. This helps us understand why they

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Tend to overestimate the effectiveness of their psychotherapy

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Although Shawn felt terribly depressed when he began psychotherapy, he was much happier by the time he had completed therapy. It would be reasonable to attribute some of his improvement to

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Regression toward the mean

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The best outcome studies for evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapy typically use

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Randomized clinical trials.

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Meta-analysis refers to

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A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.

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Controlled research studies indicate that the value of EMDR is in part due to the effectiveness of:

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Exposure therapy

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A common ingredient underlying the success of diverse psychotherapies is the

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Client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better

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Which form of therapy has more directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals?

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Drug therapy

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Prozac is an antidepressant drug that partially blocks the reabsorption and removal of ____ from synapses.

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Serotonin

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Lithium is often an effective _____ drug.

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Mood-stabilizing

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Adelle's feelings of unhappiness, low self-esteem, and hopelessness have become so extreme that she has attempted suicide. Which of the following treatments is likely to provide her with the quickest relief from her misery?

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Electroconvulsive therapy

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Treating our mind and body as independent entities seems especially inappropriate to those who take a _____ approach to therapy

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Biopsychosocial

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question

Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are most likely to be treated with

answer

psychotherapy

question

Mental health therapies that involve prescribed drugs or other procedures that act directly on a patients nervous systems are

answer

Biomedical therapies

question

A therapist who takes an eclectic approach is one who

answer

Uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic approaches

question

The first psychological therapy was introduced by

answer

Sigmund Freud

question

A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is

answer

Free associations

question

According to psychoanalysts, resistance refers to the

answer

Blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material during therapy

question

An important component of psychoanalysis is

answer

Dream analysis

question

To understand his patients' repressed conflicts, Freud sought to identify the _____ of their dreams

answer

Latent content

question

Which form of therapy is most likely to be criticized for offering interpretations that cannot be proven or disproven

answer

psychoanalysis

question

Psychodynamic therapy is ____ than traditional psychoanalysis

answer

briefer

question

Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends

answer

Interpersonal psychotherapy

question

Unlike psychoanalytic therapists, humanistic therapists tend to focus on the ____ more than the ____.

answer

Present; past

question

Instead of focusing on the cure of psychological disorders, ____ therapies seek to promote personal growth and self-fulfillment

answer

humanistic

question

Empathic understanding of the patient's subjective experiences is a major goal of a

answer

Client-centered therapist

question

Carl Rogers referred to a caring, nonjudgmental attitude as

answer

Unconditional positive regard

question

A procedure that trains people to make new responses to stimuli that currently trigger unwanted responses is called

answer

Counterconditioning

question

Systematic desensitization is a form of ____, which is a type of ____.

answer

Counterconditioning; behavior therapy

question

A token economy is to operant conditioning as ___ is to classical conditioning.

answer

Systematic desensitization

question

answer

Registering for a college course

question

Which of the following techniques have behavior therapists used to help people overcome a fear of flying?

answer

Virtual reality exposure therapy

question

Virtual reality exposure therapy is a form of

answer

Systematic desensitization

question

In treating alcohol dependency, therapists have clients consume alcohol that contains a nausea-producing drug.

answer

Aversive conditioning

question

Connor is constantly chewing tobacco. To reduce his appetite for this product, a behavior therapist would most likely use

answer

Aversive conditioning

question

Therapists practice ______ by using positive reinforces to reward closer and closer approximations of a desired behavior.

answer

Behavior modification

question

Which of the following is the best description of behavior modification?

answer

Patients' actions are influenced by controlling the consequences of those actions

question

A token economy represents an application of the principles of

answer

Operant conditioning

question

The assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions is most clearly central to

answer

Cognitive therapies

question

Cognitive therapists would be most likely to encourage depressed clients to

answer

Stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control

question

Dylan is a second-year undergraduate who feels so incompetent that he believes his life is worthless and hopeless. Dylan would profit the most from

answer

Beck's cognitive therapy

question

Group therapy is typically more effective than individual therapy for

answer

Enabling people to discover that others have problems similar to their own

question

Which form of therapy is most likely to emphasize the importance of examining a person's role within a social system?

answer

Family therapy

question

By overestimating the actual benefits of their psychotherapeutic threatment, clients are most likely attempting to satisfy their motivation for

answer

Self-justification

question

The placebo effect refers to

answer

The beneficial consequences of merely expecting that a treatment will be effective

question

In the 1950s, Hans Eysenck challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy because it appeared to be

answer

No more beneficial than no treatment at all

question

Research has shown that clients' level of satisfaction with psychotherapy

answer

Is unrelated to the level of training and experience of their therapists

question

Ron is a 22-year-old mechanic who suffers from claustrophobia. The most effect way to treat Ron's problem would involve _____ therapy.

answer

Behavior

question

Rapidly moving one's eyes while recalling traumatic experiences is most descriptive of

answer

EMDR

question

Light exposure therapy was developed to relieve symptoms of

answer

Depression

question

Psychologist with expertise in research, the assessment of psychological disorders. And the practice of psychotherapy are typically

answer

Clinical psychologists

question

Psychopharmacology involves the study of how

answer

Drugs affect mind and behavior

question

answer

The double-blind technique

question

Double-blind studies enable researchers to assess the extent to which drug therapy outcomes are attributable to

answer

The placebo effect

question

Xanax and Ativan are ____ drugs.

answer

Antianxiety

question

Xanax would most likely be prescribed in order to help

answer

Jerome overcome feelings of nervous apprehension and an inability to relax.

question

Which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from Prozac?

answer

Shannon, who feels helpless and apathetic and thinks her life is meaningless and worthless

question

Psychosurgery involves

answer

Removing or destroying brain tissue

question

answer

Biopsychosocial

question

answer

Preventive mental health

question

Preventive mental health attempts to reduce the incidence of psychological disorders by

answer

Establishing programs to alleviate poverty and other demoralizing situations

question

Transference refers to a client's

answer

Expression toward a therapist of feelings linked with earlier life relationships

question

Lynn has begun to buy small gifts for her therapist, and she feels extremely jealous of the time he spends with his other patients. To a psychoanalyst, this is most indicative of

answer

Transference

question

Humanistic therapists are likely to teach clients to

answer

Take more responsibility for their own feelings and actions

question

Carl Rogers encouraged client-centered therapists to ____ during the process of therapy.

answer

Genuinely express their own true feelings

question

The healing power of insight and self-awareness is LEAST likely to be emphasized by _____ therapists.

answer

Behavior

question

Systematic desensitization involves

answer

Associating a pleasant relaxed state with anxiety-arousing stimuli.

question

answer

Aversive conditioning

question

Reinforcing desired behaviors and withholding reinforcement for undesired behaviors is most central to the process of

answer

Behavior modification

question

answer

Cognitive therapy

question

Stress inoculation training focuses on helping people to

answer

Replace negative self-talk with more positive comments

question

Which form of psychotherapy is LEAST likely to occur in therapist-led small groups?

answer

Psychoanalysis

question

People often enter psychotherapy during a period of crisis in their lives. This helps us understand why they

answer

Tend to overestimate the effectiveness of their psychotherapy

question

Although Shawn felt terribly depressed when he began psychotherapy, he was much happier by the time he had completed therapy. It would be reasonable to attribute some of his improvement to

answer

Regression toward the mean

question

The best outcome studies for evaluating the effectiveness of psychotherapy typically use

answer

Randomized clinical trials.

question

Meta-analysis refers to

answer

A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies.

question

Controlled research studies indicate that the value of EMDR is in part due to the effectiveness of:

answer

Exposure therapy

question

A common ingredient underlying the success of diverse psychotherapies is the

answer

Client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better

question

Which form of therapy has more directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals?

answer

Drug therapy

question

Prozac is an antidepressant drug that partially blocks the reabsorption and removal of ____ from synapses.

answer

Serotonin

question

Lithium is often an effective _____ drug.

answer

Mood-stabilizing

question

answer

Electroconvulsive therapy

question

Treating our mind and body as independent entities seems especially inappropriate to those who take a _____ approach to therapy

answer

Biopsychosocial

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