Exam 9: Gender Roles, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

Elwood goes to his therapist to try and get help in quitting smoking. His therapist makes him engage in rapid smoking in which he must inhale every six seconds, while cigarette smoke is being blown in his face by a hair dryer positioned in back of 10 other cigarettes. This technique is called ______.

The main reason most people quit using lithium is ______.

Cognitive therapy is passive and nondirective.

______ is an extremely controversial treatment for violent agitation that is rarely used today because of its horrendous side effects and the advent of major tranquilizers.

Kathy is challenging her phobias by slowly decreasing the distance between herself and the target, first by approaching the target with a friend, and then approaching it alone, and slowly increasing the amount of time she spends with the target. This is called ______.

Some African Americans develop low self-esteem because they ______ negative stereotypes.

In biofeedback training, therapists help clients become more aware of, and gain control over, various ______.

Research into the effectiveness of therapy has not been encouraging.

In gradual approach, a series of objects or situations are rank-ordered from least severe to most severe, that cause a person to become anxious or fearful is called ______.

Elwood goes to his therapist to get treatment for his severe depression. His therapist points out several cognitive errors Elwood is making in how he interprets the world around him. The therapist focuses on getting Elwood to stop undervaluing his own achievements and pessimistically assuming the worst about everything. Elwood's therapist is using techniques MOST like those of ______.

Couple therapy improves relationships by improving their ______.

According to your text, researchers believe that specific therapeutic techniques may explain about ______ of therapeutic change as nonspecific factors.

Compare and contrast individual therapy with group therapy, and briefly describe at least two types of group therapy.

Modern psychoanalysts place more emphasis on the id than did Freud.

Psychodynamically oriented therapists who focus on the conscious, coping behavior of the ego instead of the hypothesized, unconscious functioning of the id are called ______.

People with bipolar disorder may show a good response to anticonvulsive drugs commonly used to treat epilepsy

The person known for developing cognitive therapy is ______.

Antidepressant drugs bring complete symptom relief in about _____ of depressed patients.

Antidepressant drugs are called minor tranquilizers.

Cognitive therapists believe that emotional reactions to disappointments in life are determined by our beliefs about these events, not by the events themselves.