module 70&71

To encourage Mrs. Coleman, a withdrawn schizophrenia patient, to be more socially active, institutional staff members give her small plastic cards whenever she talks to someone. She is allowed to exchange these cards for candy and cigarettes. Staff members are making use of free association. active listening. systematic desensitization. a token economy. classical conditioning.

a token economy.

Psychoanalysts are most likely to help clients identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences. vigorously challenge clients' illogical ways of thinking. repeat or rephrase what a client says during the course of therapy. associate a client's undesirable behavior with unpleasant experiences. attend to patients' positive and negative feelings toward their therapists.

attend to patients' positive and negative feelings toward their therapists.

Mrs. Laiti is a compulsive gambler. To reduce her attraction to this self-defeating activity, a behavior therapist would most likely use the double-blind procedure. systematic desensitization. EMDR. a token economy. aversive conditioning.

aversive conditioning.

Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client? insight therapy behavior therapy client-centered therapy cognitive therapy psychoanalysis

behavior therapy

Empathic understanding of the patient's subjective experiences is a major goal of a biomedical therapist. client-centered therapist. psychoanalyst. behavior therapist. exposure therapist.

client-centered therapist.

In one study, people were taught to attribute their compulsive urges to abnormal brain functioning. Instead of giving in to an urge, they participated in an alternative activity that engaged other parts of the brain. This strategy for dealing with their difficulty best illustrates systematic desensitization. humanistic therapy. psychodynamic therapy. cognitive-behavior therapy. EMDR.

cognitive-behavior therapy.

Benny's mother tries to reduce his fear of sailing by giving the 3-year-old his favorite candy as soon as they board the boat. The mother's strategy best illustrates the placebo effect. aversive conditioning. transference. counterconditioning. cognitive therapy.

counterconditioning.

To help Mrs. Otsuki lose weight, her therapist first attempted to assess whether her weight loss might be personally threatening to her husband. The therapist's concern is most characteristic of a psychoanalyst. client-centered therapist. family therapist. biomedical therapist. eclectic therapist.

family therapist.

A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis is free association. observational learning. active listening. systematic desensitization. stress inoculation training.

free association.

Which of the following is a form of counterconditioning? free association stress inoculation training psychoanalysis virtual reality exposure therapy unconditional positive regard

i actually dont know but its not stress inoculation

Insight therapies aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing patients' awareness of their own motives and defenses. using conditioning techniques to reduce the cognitive experience of anxiety. discouraging patients from using antidepressant drugs. using progressive relaxation to reduce patients' anxiety. using personality tests to accurately diagnose patients' difficulties.

increasing patients' awareness of their own motives and defenses.

Praising socially withdrawn children when they have eye contact with others and ignoring them after a temper tantrum best illustrates an application of unconditional positive regard. cognitive therapy. active listening. facilitated communication. operant conditioning.

operant conditioning.

Sigmund Freud introduced a form of psychotherapy known as counterconditioning. cognitive therapy. psychoanalysis. active listening. psychosexual fixation.

psychoanalysis.

Nate's past relationships with his mother, his former wife, and his previous employer have been characterized by common patterns of resentment and emotional detachment. Helping Nate gain insight into these recurring relationship patterns would be of greatest concern to a humanistic therapist. behavior therapist. psychopharmacologist. psychodynamic therapist. biomedical therapist.

psychodynamic therapist.

Psychological disorders that researchers believe are learned, such as phobias, are most likely to be treated with transference. meta-analysis. psychotherapy. psychoanalysis. aversive conditioning.

psychotherapy.

The confrontational cognitive therapy in which therapists challenge people's illogical statements is known as biomedical therapy behavior therapy rational-emotive behavior therapy psychodynamic therapy humanistic therapy

rational-emotive behavior therapy

During psychotherapy, Leon would begin to stutter whenever he began discussing personally sensitive thoughts. Sigmund Freud would have been likely to interpret this stuttering as latent. tardive dyskinesia. transference. neurogenesis. resistance.

resistance.

Cognitive therapists are most likely to encourage depressed clients to carefully observe the negative consequences of their depression. take more personal responsibility for their own negative feelings and actions. stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control. identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences. sense and express their own real moment-to-moment feelings of depression.

stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.

Which of the following exemplifies exposure therapy? family therapy systematic desensitization therapeutic touch stress inoculation training repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation

systematic desensitization

To help Thor overcome his fear of giving public speeches, his therapist instructs him to relax and then to imagine speaking to a small audience. The therapist is using cognitive therapy. psychoanalysis. client-centered therapy. aversive conditioning. systematic desensitization.

systematic desensitization.