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Anthony has difficulty playing with other children. He often gets angry and stomps off when things don’t go his way. To help him learn to deal with his anger, his parents engage him in a game of Candy Land. They respond the way they would like to see Anthony respond when he loses a turn or is forced to move backward on the board. Anthony’s parents are using a behavior modification technique called |
modeling |
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Joy earns a gumball sticker for every chore she completes. She puts the stickers on her gumball chart. When the gumball chart is filled, Joy gets to choose a prize out of the prize box. Joy’s parents are using |
token economy |
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Joshua’s sister had a bad day at school. As a result, she doesn’t want to play with him. Joshua assumes she is angry with him. Joshua is experiencing |
personalization |
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The main goal of _____ therapy is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly. |
action |
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An insight therapy that emphasizes revealing unconscious conflicts, urges, and desires which may be causing mental disorders is |
psychoanalysis. |
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______ is a technique in which the patient is encouraged to talk about anything that comes to mind without fear of negative evaluations |
Free Association |
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When the therapist becomes a symbol of a parental authority figure from the past, the patient is experiencing |
transference |
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_______ therapies are action based rather than insight based |
Behavior |
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Rather than focusing on the behavior itself, _______ therapies focus on the distorted thinking and unrealistic beliefs that lead to maladaptive behavior |
cognitive |
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_______ seem(s) to work better in group settings than psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioral therapies. |
Behavior therapies |
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In behavior therapy, the reduction of the undesired behavior is |
easy to measure, but gaining insights, feelings of control, and self-worth are not easily evaluated |
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A therapy technique in which the therapist restates what the client says rather than interpreting the statements is |
reflection |
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A therapy style in which the therapist remains relatively neutral is ______ therapy. |
nondirective |
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Therapies that directly affect the biological functioning of the body and brain are known as |
biomedical therapies. |
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Who questioned whether psychotherapy really works? |
Hans Eysenck |
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Distortions of thinking in which a person blows a negative event out of proportion to its importance while ignoring relevant positive events is called |
magnification and minimization |
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The use of drugs to control or relieve the symptoms of psychological disorders is called |
psychopharmacology. |
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Individuals who suffer from severe mental illness along with psychosis are generally not good candidates for ______ treatment |
psychodynamic |
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Who founded Gestalt therapy? |
Fritz Perls |
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Using medical methods to treat psychological disorders is a form of |
biomedical therapy. |
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Phillipe Pinel is known for |
personally unchaining the inmates at an asylum in Paris |
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The first organized effort to do something with mentally ill persons began in |
London |
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The process in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior |
aversion therapy. |
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In person-centered therapy, most of the work is done by |
the client or patient. |
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Unlike psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, behavior therapies are |
action based, rather than insight based |
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According to humanistic therapists, the ideal self and the real self should match as closely as possible. This is achieved through |
unconditional positive regard. |
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Cognitive therapists focus on |
helping people change their way of thinking |
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_______ seem(s) to work better in group settings than psychoanalysis and cognitive-behavioral therapies |
Behavior therapies |
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The goal of most psychotherapy is |
to help both mentally healthy and psychologically disordered persons understand themselves better |
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Most professionals would agree that any biomedical therapy of a psychological disorder should be accompanied by |
some type of psychotherapy |
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Which of the following people is a good candidate for humanistic therapy? |
Jasper, who is highly intelligent, expressive, and can think logically about his problems |
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Daniel failed a math test. Upon receiving his grade, Daniel believed that he must be bad at math and therefore would fail the class, be unable to get into college, and would have to work in fast food for the rest of his life. Daniel is exhibiting |
overgeneralization |
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Abhinov was told to stop knocking over his brother’s block tower. After three warnings to stop this behavior, Abhinov’s mom told him to go to his room. Abhinov’s mom is using a form of extinction called |
time-out. |
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Meredith tells her therapist, Dr. Shepherd, that her mother recently died and she’s been experiencing suicidal thoughts. Dr. Shepherd responds by explaining that he can imagine that she must be feeling angry and abandoned. Dr. Shepherd is displaying ______, a key element in person-centered therapy |
empathy |
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Carter has bitten his fingernails to the point where his finger tips are constantly red and swollen. After meeting with a therapist, Carter’s parents have started putting a foul-tasting liquid on his fingernails several times a day. Carter’s therapist is using |
aversion therapy. |
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A token economy is an example of a(n) _____ therapy |
reinforcement |
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The two kinds of psychotherapy are ______, in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings, and _______, in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly |
insight therapy; action therapy |
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Freud focused his cleansing on the impurities of the unconscious mind, such as |
socially unacceptable desires |
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One of the key elements of person-centered therapy is _____, which is the genuine, open, and honest response of the therapist to the client |
authenticity |
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The first efforts to treat the mentally ill with kindness and guidance are called |
moral treatment. |
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A more recent version of behavior modification is known as applied behavior |
analysis |
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A technique in which the person is rapidly and intensely exposed to fear-provoking situations or objects and prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response is |
flooding |
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Who developed cognitive therapy? |
Aaron T. Beck |
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One of the criticisms of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapies is that |
they treat the symptom, not the cause. |
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