Choose the correct answer for each question.
The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is:
In order to deal with his recurrent bouts of anxiety, Paul is seeing a psychoanalyst. During each session, Dr. Mindbender encourages Paul to lie back, relax, and say whatever comes to his mind. This part of psychoanalysis is called:
After six months of therapy, Paul finds himself becoming more and more angry with Dr. Mindbender. Dr. Mindbender believes that Paul is really angry with his father and that the feelings he has for his therapist reflect ________.
When Dr. Mindbender suggests that Paul may have some buried feelings of anger and hostility toward his father, Paul laughs and quickly changes the subject. This happens several times. Paul's behavior may reflect:
Compared to traditional Freudian techniques, modern psychoanalytic therapies:
A task force assembled by APA reviewed evidence on repressed memories of childhood abuse. What conclusions did they draw?
Which of the following is out of place?
Carol is extremely afraid of snakes. To eliminate her phobia, the therapist locks her in a room with a caged snake. Although she experiences an initial panic reaction, her fear subsides after 45 minutes. This procedure is repeated several times until the phobia is completely gone. The therapist has used the classical conditioning technique of ________.
Kelly is also extremely afraid of snakes and has sought treatment for his phobia. During his therapy, he is trained in relaxation techniques. Also, he and his therapist construct and anxiety hierarchy, and he is gradually exposed over several sessions to the items on the anxiety hierarchy. Lee has experienced ________.
Classical conditioning techniques have been used successfully to treat which disorders?
Kyra works with autistic children. When a child engages in "good" behavior (for example, picking up his or her toys), she gives the child a plastic chip that can be exchanged for TV privileges, candy, and other treats. Kyra has established a:
Ryan was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few years ago. In order to help Ryan learn how to more effectively interact with people, his therapist demonstrates appropriate forms of eye contact, social distance, and conversational style. Ryan then imitates and rehearses the same behaviors while his therapist provides praise and constructive feedback. Ryan is receiving:
Which one of the following statements about cognitive therapy is accurate?
Jay is about to begin rational-emotive therapy. Which of the following might he expect to experience during the course of his treatment?
Compared with Ellis's rational-emotive therapy, Beck's cognitive therapy is:
Rogers redefined the role of the therapist as being that of a(n):
Person-centered therapists must demonstrate which qualities for a successful therapeutic experience?
The technique of ________ involves actively listening to a client's statements without interrupting or evaluating, paraphrasing those statements in response to the client, and seeking clarification when needed.
Which of the following therapists would play the least directive role in the therapeutic process?
Compared to Rogerian therapy, Gestalt therapy is:
Psychoanalysis is to ________ as humanistic therapy is to sensitivity-training.
Family therapies view the family as:
Research suggests that people will experience improvements in what order during the course of therapy?
Cognitive therapies appear to be most effective for treating:
Behavioral therapies are most effective at treating:
Which term is out of place?
Panic attack is to benzodiazepines as bipolar disorder is to ________.
Considerations in using drug therapy include:
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is likely to result in which of the following?
The goal of practicing clinical psychologists is to:
Your friend is telling you about his current psychotherapy. In addition to talking with his therapist about his problems, the therapist has prescribed psychoactive drugs to help your friend get better. You can safely guess that his therapist is a:
As part of your agreement with the court to not serve any jail time for your D.U.I., you agree to undergo an alcohol treatment program. As part of your treatment, the therapist asks you to imagine that all of the alcohol you drink is filled with small maggots. This unpleasant image is most likely to be part of:
You are very upset, because your 3-year relationship is breaking up. At one point, you tell your rational-emotive therapist, Albert Ellis, that you cannot live without your romantic partner. Ellis is most likely to reply:
What are the two main approaches to therapies for mental disorders?
The prefrontal lobotomy is a form of psychosurgery. Though no longer widely used, it was at one time used in cases in which a patient:
Terry had electroconvulsive shock therapy a number of years ago. She is now suffering a side effect of that therapy. What is she most likely to be suffering from?
You are observing a therapy session in which a patient is lying on a couch, talking. The therapist is listening and asking occasional questions. What is most likely to be the therapist's goal?
One reason people enter psychotherapy is for personal growth. Which of the following people seems to have such a motive?
What is Rick likely to do during his Gestalt therapy session?
Grace has been feeling depressed. Her therapist is helping her to stop magnifying failures and overgeneralizing them. She is learning to replace irrational beliefs with rational beliefs. Her therapist is a:
In therapy, Brenda is drinking wine. She then gets an injection, which immediately causes her to vomit. This is repeated every day for two weeks, after which she gets sick just smelling wine. This type of therapy is called:
A severely depressed person has been treated with antidepressant drugs with no improvement. What form of treatment is likely to be tried next?
A leader of the humanitarian reform movement in the United States was:
A person has a dream in which they are flying. According to Freud, the perceived subject matter of the dream, in this case flying, is its:
The person who wrote that many people are depressed, because they are pessimistic and tend to minimize their own accomplishments is a: