Psychology Final Exam

____ is particularly important b/c it alleviates symptoms of depression in 3 or 4 day course of treatment as compared ____ week time window for drug therapists.

1-2

In history of treatment of mental disorders, nothing can rival revolution created by ___?

Drug therapists

Number of patients in mental hospitals in U.S has decreased since 1950s primarily as a result of ____?

Drug therapists

Carl Rogers

Emphasized importance of therapists warmth and empathy and idea now endorsed by virtually all therapists.

Critics of electro compulsive theory believe it's inhumane b/c ECT is ineffective unless patient is conscious.

False

When appropriate drug is given medication eliminates people's mental disorders.

False

Systematic desensitization, flooding, and aversion therapy are forms of psychodynamic therapy, developed by successors of Sigmund Freud

False.

______school of therapy has one of its primary goals as an optimistic perception of itself and world.

Humanistic

Psychoanalysis

Is a method to explore unconscious motives and conflicts through process of reassociation in which patients talk about his/her thoughts, dreams, and memories.

______ must be given at exactly right dosage because too little won't help people who suffer bipolar disorder, and too much is toxic.

Lithium carbonate

Most biomedical therapists conceive of mental disorders as ____?

Problems in the brain.

Comparison b/w psychoanalytic and behavioral therapy reveals that for ________ therapy , insight is CENTRAL, whereas for the BEHAVIORAL therapy, It is IRRELEVANT.

Psychoanalytical

Woman therapist wrote prescription fro anti-psychotic med in order to eliminate hallucinations

Therapist must be a psychiatrist.

All successful therapists, regardless of approach, share what key elements:

They are able to replace a client's self-defeated pessimistic life story w/ one more hopeful/contained .

A family therapist would agree that efforts to isolate and treat one member w/o other family members is doomed.

True

A salt called lithium carbonate often helps people who suffer from bipolar disorder.

True

About 1/2 to 2/3 of patients taking antipsychotic/antidepressive drugs but at least 1/2 patients stop taking them often to unpleasant side effects.

True

ECT has been proven extremely successful at quickly alleviating the symptoms of serious depression.

True

Lithium salts have proven very effective at treatment of bipolar disorders.

True

Portuguese theorologist Egas Moniz won Nobel peace prize for inventing prefrontal lobotomy operation

True

Psychosurgery is defined as any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain believe to be involved in emotional disorders/violent compulsive disorders

True

Psychosurgery is defined as __________?

any surgical procedure that destroys selected areas of the brain believed to be involved in emotional disorders/ violent compulsive behaviors.

Primary goals of therapy is: modification of self-deflating behaviors, known as ____?

behavioral therapy

Lithium salts have proven very effective of treatment of ___?

bipolar disorder

Unconditional positive regard, and empathy for clients characterize approach of those who practice ______?

client-centered therapy.

Primary goals of therapy are: resolution of conflicts and breaking out of destructive habits, known as ___?

couple's therapy

Primary goals of therapy are: resolution of conflicts and breaking out of destructive habits ---->

couple's therapy.

Psychologists practice behavioral therapy to focus on clients _____?

current behavior and attitudes

Tricyclics drug Prozac and Monoamanoxidase inhibitors (MAOs) are most frequently used in treatment of _______?

depression

Imagine if reading case of a woman who has undergone operation known has prefrontal lobotomy, you can expect that after operation the women would have_____?

difficulty planning and show emotional flatness.

Grandmother is about to undergo electroconvulsive therapy. Side effects are ______?

experiencing temporary disorientation and some memory problems.

Which of the following therapies focuses on a person's freewill to change and self=actualize rather than focusing on past conflicts:

humanistic

Primary goals of therapy are insight, self-acceptance, self-fulfillment, and a new optimistic perception of self and world, known as____?

humanistic therapy

As a group, behavior therapies give primary importance to:

learning and observable actions.

The theoretical technique is used in unconscious motivations and conflicts:

psychoanalysis

Primary goal of therapy is:insight into unconscious motives and conflict-->

psychodynamic therapy

A patient lies comfortably relaxed on a couch while verbally reporting all thoughts, feelings, sensations, or mental events. He is engaged in...?

re-association

The psychoanalysis is known as whenever a patient is talking about his father, he has very little to say or will quickly change the topic; when dad is finally discussed, the patient claims the dad is irrelevant. Therapist is most likely to interpret patients behavior as ...

resistance

Electroconvulsive therapy has successfully been used to treat ______ that has not responded to other treatments.

severe depression

Electroconvulsive therapy has successfully been used to treat ________ that has not responded to other treatments.

severe depression

Psychodynamic therapists have claimed that behaviorists treat our target behaviors rather than the true inner causes of disorders. Research, however, has not shown that _________ takes place as result of psychodynamic therapists would predict/

symptom substitution

A boy is afraid of spiders of all sizes. His therapist asks him to develop a list of situations in which spiders create anxiety for him of least to most threatening. Next, he is taught how to relax and let go of his tension. Finally, while relaxed, he is asked to imagine the least threatening situation on the list. Procedure used by boy's therapists is called _____?

systematic desensitization

The family therapist is most likely to focus attention on _____?

the whole family system.

Major element of all psycho-dynamic therapy from is...

transference

A person may have short term success in antipsychotic an antidepressive drugs but at least 1/2 patient stop taking them because of the _____?

unpleasant side effects of medicine.

Primarily assumptions of cognitive therapy is that a major factor underlies abnormal behavior, patterns, and emotions distress is _______?

what people think and how people think.

Aaron Neck

would be most likely to encourage a client to test her beliefs against evidence b/c depression is often caused by misinfo and unprecedented beliefs.