Quiz 7
Aaron Beck's methods of cognitive therapy focus on arguing clients out of beliefs that are making them miserable and exposing them to situations they avoid because of irrational fear.
True
According to the biological views on the origins of psychological disorders, humans are genetically predisposed to fear stimuli that may have posed a threat to their ancestors.
True
Anxiety is an appropriate response to a real threat, but it can be abnormal when it is excessive.
True
Experimentation is the gold standard for research in psychology.
True
Gestalt therapy assumes that people disown parts of themselves that might meet with social disapproval or rejection.
True
Hippocrates suggested that psychological disorders are caused by brain abnormalities.
True
In the context of humanistic therapies, client-centered therapy is directive in nature.
False
In the context of obsessive-compulsive disorder, seemingly irresistible urges to engage in thoughts or behaviors that tend to reduce anxiety are referred to as obsessions.
False
In the context of specific phobias, acrophobia is the fear of snakes.
False
Like psychoanalysis, Gestalt therapy focuses on the here and now.
False
People who develop illness anxiety disorder are not sensitive to bodily sensations and tend to disregard them.
False
People with body dysmorphic disorder have dual personalities.
False
People with delusional disorder hold persistent, delusional beliefs that sound plausible and are never bizarre.
False
The central symptom of generalized anxiety disorder is persistent anxiety that can be attributed to a phobic object, situation, or activity.
False
In biofeedback training, therapists attach clients to devices that measure bodily functions such as heart rate.
True
Adoptee studies show that adoptive parents with anxiety disorders place their children at greater risk for anxiety and related traits as compared to biological parents.
False
Client-centered therapists focus on telling clients what to do, instead of helping them arrive at their own decisions.
False
Electroconvulsive therapy has no side effects.
False
Fraternal twins are much more likely to both have anxiety disorder than identical twins.
False
In aversive conditioning, an aversive stimulus is paired with a painful behavior in order to increase the frequency of that behavior.
False
In generalized dissociative amnesia, people forget particular traumatic instances of their lives but not their entire lives.
False
In modern psychodynamic therapies, there is more focus on the id and less emphasis on the ego.
False
In psychoanalysis, the tendency to block the free expression of impulses and primitive ideas is referred to as transference.
False
In rational emotive behavior therapy, Albert Ellis pointed out that our beliefs about events, not just the events themselves, shape our responses to them.
True
People with borderline personality disorder show instability in their relationships, self-image, and mood and a lack of control over impulses.
True