Chapter 19 Test Review- Psychology

Active listening

A therapist using _______________ technique recasts, rephrases, and asks for clarification of the statements made by a patient.

Rational-emotive behavior therapy

Which of the following uses role-playing, modeling, and homework assignments?

Counterconditioning

Which of the following uses systematic desensitization and modeling?

Person-centered

Active listening and unconditional positive regard are key components of _________________ therapy.

Manifest content

Actual content of a dream as it is remembered by a patient.

Self-help group

Alcoholics Anonymous is an example of a/an

Antipsychotic drugs

Common treatment for schizophrenia.

To change the thoughts of the patient in order to change their behavior

Describe the goals and techniques of cognitive therapy

True

Electroconvulsive therapy and psychosurgery are controversial forms of treatment and are seldom used.

Freud's use of hypnosis

From what did the psychoanalytic technique of free association develop?

It targets a specific problem rather than the entire personality, the duration of treatment is shorter, it is available to more people.

How does brief psychoanalysis differ from traditional psychoanalysis?

Rewarding and working up to a target behavior

How does the techniques of successive approximations change behaviors?

By hospitalizing the 5-7 percent of homeless with sever mental illness

How might the mental health care system quickly help improve the situation for mentally ill homeless people?

Social relationship problems

Humanistic therapy seems to work best for treating...

Replacing self-defeating behavior with adaptive behavior

Identify and describe the goals of behavior therapy

Antidepressants must build to a certain level in the body to be effective.

Jeanne has been depressed. She has also not been sleeping well. She has started to take antidepressants, but she's had no improvement in her mood or sleep problems. What is probably the reason for this?

Psychiatrists

Mental health doctors who can prescribe medication

True

Operant conditioning is based on the assumption that behavior that is reinforced will be repeated.

Transferrence

Patients experiencing _____________ develop a relationship with their analyst that is similar to one they had or have with another important person in their lives.

False

Psychiatric social workers are medical doctors, so they can dispense drugs.

Antidepressants

Psychiatrists sometimes use ___________ to treat people with eating disorders and panic disorders.

Anxiety

Psychoanalysis may be most helpful for people experiencing...

Dream analysis

Psychoanalysts use ____________ to reveal the unconscious thoughts and feelings expressed in dreams.

People stop being true to themselves and act as others expect them to act

Psychologist Carl Rogers believed that psychological problems arise when...

Helping them overcome isolation, giving them hope for improvement, and changing outlooks and perspectives.

Psychotherapy can help troubled individuals by...

Share the same problem

Self-help groups are composed of people who...

Restructuring illogical thought processes

Which of the following is the focus of the therapy developed by psychiatrist Aaron Beck?

Prescribe anti anxiety drugs

Sergio's mother died recently, and he has been asked to come to an interview at the college he hopes to attend. If he does well, he believes he will earn a scholarship. His father is worried about the stress Sergio is under and has decided to take him to a doctor. What will you, the doctor, most likely do?

Successive approximations

Series of behaviors that gradually become more similar to a target behavior

True

The ancient Greeks and Romans were likely the first people to use lithium in the treatment of mental disorders.

Rational-emotive therapy

Therapy that involves identifying and challenging false assumptions.

Anti anxiety

To help reduce stress and to control the symptoms of anxiety disorders, psychologists may prescribe _______________ medications

Psychotherapy

Treatment method involving verbal interactions between therapist and client

Person-centered therapy

Type of therapy often practiced by school and college counselors.

Self-help groups

Type type of group therapy in which people with common problems support one another.

Decreased creativity, apathy and reduced learning ability, reduced agitation and violence.

What are the possible results of a prefrontal lobotomy?

Behavior modification

What is another name for behavior therapy?

Therapy

What is the general term for the variety of approaches that mental health professionals use to treat psychological problems and disorders.

Learning desirable behaviors

What is the goal of operant conditioning?

Eliminating troubling emotions or behaviors

What is the key goal of cognitive therapy and behavioral therapy?

Memory impairment

What is the longest-lasting effect of electroconvulsive therapy?

Cognitive therapy seeks to alter how patients think, while behavior therapy works to change how they act

What is the main difference between cognitive therapy and behavior therapy?

Fatigue

What is the major effect of anti anxiety medications?

Psychoanalysis

What was the first formal method of psychotherapy used in Western countries?

Liscenses

Which of the following do all states require of psychologists?

Psychiatrists

Which of the following groups commonly practices psychotherapy?

Individuals realize they are not alone with their problems

Which of the following is a benefit of group therapy?

Individuals realize they are not alone with their problems

Which of the following is an advantage of group therapy?