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

A therapeutic technique in which a client is first presented with minimally fearful stimuli and then slowly works up a hierarchy of progressively more fearful stimuli is known as ______.

A 2012 poll indicated that the eclectic orientation was the ______ widely held theoretical orientation for therapists.

Lithium was first used as a psychoactive drug ______.

Client-centered therapy aims to provide ______.

Humanistic-existential therapists focus on ______ experience.

A treatment method that pairs painful or repugnant stimuli with unwanted impulses to help clients gain control over those unwanted impulses is called ______.

Which of the following is NOT true of ECT?

Each of the following is a suggestion in your text for finding psychological help EXCEPT ___________.

In ______, a person is continuously, or repeatedly, exposed to a fear-evoking, but harmless stimulus until his or her fear of the stimulus is extinguished.

Token economies rely on the power of ______ to change behavior.

The systematic interaction between a therapist and a client that brings psychological principles to bear on influencing the client's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors in order to help that client is called ______.

Which of the following is NOT a benefit to group therapy?

Each of the following is an operant conditioning procedure EXCEPT ______.

Client-centered therapy is highly directive.

Many automatic thoughts are irrational and reflect ongoing sources of frustration.

An irreversible movement disorder that is a permanent side-effect of some antipsychotic drugs is ______.

Schizophrenics and violently agitated patients are often treated with ______.

A man dreams that he is flying. According to Freud, flying is the ______ content of the dream.

Which of the following is most often used in the treatment of bipolar disorder?

While in therapy, Cara often talks to her therapist and reacts to his comments in a way that is similar to the way she talks and reacts to her own father. This is an example of what Freud called ______.