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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 a. systematic desensitization. b. cognitive-behavior therapy. c. EMDR. d. psychodynamic therapy. e. humanistic therapy.

B. cognitive-behavior therapy

Mr. McCardle's excessive feelings of helplessness and despondency are periodically interrupted by episodes in which he experiences extreme feelings of personal power and a grandiose optimism about his future. Which drug would most likely be prescribed to alleviate his symptoms?

Lithium

Training people to actively dispute their own self-defeating ideas best illustrates

cognitive therapy

Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors are prescribed to

elevate arousal and mood

Which form of treatment is especially likely to focus on the goal of healing social relationships?

family therapy

One possible explanation for the delayed effect of antidepressant drugs is that the increased availability of serotonin seems to promote

neurogenesis

One reason that aversive conditioning may only be temporarily effective is that

patients know that outside the therapist's office they can engage in the undesirable behavior without fear of aversive consequences

Although Dr. Anderson uses systematic desensitization for the treatment of phobias, he prescribes antianxiety drugs as well. It is most likely that Dr. Anderson is a

psychiatrist

Mr. Choi's therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate for his parents. The therapist's goal best reflects a primary aim of

psychoanalysis

Freud's techniques and assumptions are most evident in today's

psychodynamic therapies

Helping patients gain awareness of their unconscious conflicts and defensive behaviors is a major goal of both psychoanalysis and

psychodynamic therapy

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

systematic desensitization

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

tend to overestimate the effectiveness of their psychotherapy.

The placebo effect refers to

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

Which of the following is not necessarily an advantage of group therapies over individual therapies?

they are more effective

The best psychotherapy outcome studies are randomized clinical trials comparing treatment groups with ________ groups.

to control

Mr. Phillips has recently begun to express feelings of hostility and resentment toward his therapist, who is consistently friendly, caring, and helpful. A psychoanalyst would most likely consider Mr. Phillips's hostility to be an example of

transference