Flashcards About Psych Chapter 13
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• On what form of behavioral learning is the behavioral technique of counterconditioning based?
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o Classic conditioning
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• You could use contingency management to change the behavior of a child who comes home late for dinner by
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o Refusing to let the child have dinner when he comes home late
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• What is the primary goal of psychoanalytic therapy? That is, what makes psychoanalytic therapy different from behavioral therapy or the cognitive therapies?
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o Psychoanalysis seeks to reveal and resolve problems in the patient's unconscious, particularly repressed traumatic memories, unfulfilled desires, and unconscious conflicts
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• Carl Rogers invented a technique to help people see their own thinking more clearly. Using this technique the therapist paraphrases the client's statements. Rogers called this_______
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o Reflection of feeling
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• Which form of therapy directly confronts a clients self-defeating and irrational thought process?
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o Rational-enotive behavior therapy
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• Eysenck caused a furor with his claim that people who receive psychotherapy _________
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o Improve no more often than people who receive no therapy at all.
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• A phobia would be best treated by _______, while a problem of choosing a major would be better suited for_________
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o Behavioral therapy/insight therapy
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• Which type of drug would you prescribe for a patient diagnosed with ADHD?
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o A stimulant
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• Which class of drugs blocks dopamine receptors in the brain? Which type magnifies the effects of serotonin?
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o Antipsychotic drugs block dopamine receptors / anitdepressants amplify serotonin
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• Name 3 types of medical therapies for mental disorders, including one that has been largely abandoned as ineffective and dangerous
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o Electroconvulsive therapy, drug therapy, and prefrontal lobotomy
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• The community health movement followed a deliberate plan of ______ for mental patients
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o Deinstitutionalization
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• ________,_________, and _________ all are medical techniques for treating mental disorders by directly altering the function of the brain
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o drug therapies, psychosurgery, ECT
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• biomedical therapy
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o treatment that focuses on altering the brain, especially with drugs, psychosurgery, or electroconvulsive therapy.
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• Paraprofessional
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o Individual who has received on-the-job training in mental health treatment in lieu of graduate education and full professional certification
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• psychological therapy
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o therapy based on psychological principles often called psychotherapy
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• therapeutic alliance
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o the relationship between the therapist and the client, with both parties working together to help the client deal with mental or behavioral issues
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• therapy
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o a general term for any treatment process in psychology and psychiatry, therapy refers to a variety of psychological and biomedical techniques aimed at dealing with mental disorders or coping with problems of living
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• active listener
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o a person who gives the speaker feedback in such forms as nodding, paraphrasing, maintaining an expression that shows instrest, and asking questions for clarification
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• analysis of transference
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o the Freudian technique of analyzing and interpreting the patient's relationship with the therapist, based on the assumption that this relationship mirrors unresolved conflicts in the patients past.
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• aversion therapy
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o as a classical conditioning procedure, aversive counterconditioning involves presenting the individual with an attractive stimulus paired with unpleasant stimulation to condition a repulsive reaction
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• behavior modification
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o another term for behavior therapy
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• behavior therapy
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o any form of psychotherapy based on the principles of behavioral learning, especially operant conditioning and classical conditioning
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• client - centered therapy
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o a humanistic approach to treatment developed by Carl Rogers, emphasizing an individual's tendency for healthy psychological growth through self-actualization
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• cognitive therapy
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o emphasizes rational thinking as the key to mental disorders
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• cognitive - behavioral therapy
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o a newer form of psychotherapy that combines the techniques of cognitive therapy with those of psychotherapy
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• contingency management
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o an operant conditioning approach to changing behavior by altering the consequences, especially rewards and punishments, of behavior
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exposure therapy
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o a form of desensitization therapy in which the patient directly confronts the anxiety provoking stimulus
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group therapy
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o any form of psychotherapy done with more than one client/patient at a time.
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• humanistic theory
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o focuses on human growth rather than mental disorders
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• insight therapy
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o psychotherapy in which the therapist helps the patient understand his or her problems
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• neo - Freudian psychodynamic therapy
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o therapy for a mental disorder that was developed by psychodynamic therorists who embraced Freud's ideas but disagreed with others
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• participant movement
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o a technique in which the therapist demonstrates and encourages a client to imitate a desired behavior
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• positive psychotherapy (PPT)
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o a relatively new form of cognitive - behavioral therapy that seeks to emphasize growth, health, and happiness
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• psychoanalysis
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o the goal is to release unacknowledged desires, conflicts, urges, and memories from the unconcious
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• rational - emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
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o Albert Ellis' brand of cognitive therapy based on the idea that irrational thoughts and behaviors are the case of mental disorders
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• reflection of feeling
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o Carl Rogers technique of paraphrasing the client's words attempting to capture the emotional tone expressed
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• self - help support groups
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o groups that provide clinical support and an opportunity to share ideas about common problems
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• systematic desensitization
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o a behavioral therapy technique in which anxiety is extinguished by exposing the patient to an anxiety provoking stimulus
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• antianxiety drugs
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o a category of medicines that includes the barbiturates and benzodiazepines, drugs that diminish feelings of anxiety.
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• Antidepressants
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o Medicines that treat depression, usually by their effects on the serotonin and/or the norepinephrine pathways in the brain
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• Anitpsychotics
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o Medicines that diminish psychotic symptoms usually by effects of the dopamine receptors in the brain
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• community mental health movement
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o an effort to deinstitutionalize mental patients and to to provide therapy from outpatient clincs
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• deinstitutionalization
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o the policy of removing patients, whenever possible, from mental hospitals
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• electrocovulsive therapy (ECT)
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o a treatment used primarily for depression and involving the application of an electric current to the head, producing a generalized shock seizure
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• psychosurgery
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o the general term for surgical intervention in the brain to treat psychological disorders
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• stimulants
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o a drug that arouses the central nervous system, speeding up the mental and physical responses.
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• tardive dyskinesia
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o an incurable disorder of motor control, especially involving muscles of the face and head, resulting from long term use of antipsychotic drugs
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• transcranial magnetic stimulation
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o a treatment that involves the magnetic stimulation of specific regions of the brain
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• combination therapy
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o a therapeutic approach that involves both psychological and medical techniques - most often a drug therapy with a behavioral or cognitive-behavioral therapy
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• empirically supported treatment (EST)
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o treatment regimen that has been demonstrated to be effected through research
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