Exam 15: Therapies.

A new medical technique that uses magnetic pulses to temporarily block activity in specific parts of the brain and has been shown to be effective in the treatment of compulsive gambling and obsessive-compulsive disorder is called __________.

To show the effectiveness of therapies, which of the following would be used as the control group?

When electric shock is used to make the sight and smell of alcohol a conditioned stimuli for an aversion response, the electric shock serves as the

A psychoanalyst who believes in the theories of Freud would see psychopathology as caused by

Anna believes that if she does not perform perfectly in all her courses that her family and friends will not love her anymore, while Ricky stays angry because life is not the way he wants it to be and feels that he is constantly being treated unfairly by everyone he meets.These two people are exhibiting the core ideas that underlie

Regarding self-help groups, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Toby likes to play with his sister's cat, but he often plays "too rough" with the cat.So, every time Toby begins to terrorize his sister's cat, his mother takes the cat and puts it in another room away from Toby.Toby's rough treatment of his sister's cat will

Today, the most popular approach to nonmedical therapy is __________ therapy.

When a response is followed by a reward, this response will occur more often.This illustrates

When looking in the yellow pages, psychologists are usually found under the heading "Psychologists," or

Which of the following would a person in Gestalt therapy NOT be encouraged to do?

Which is NOT a characteristic of all psychotherapies?

If Curtis has acrophobia, one way to treat Curtis' fear of heights would involve forcing Curtis to go out onto the balcony on the top (35th)floor of his apartment building.This technique is known as

Since a phobia is a conditioned emotional response, repeated gradual exposure to the feared object will eventually have what effect on the person's fear response?

The first step in self-directed desensitization is

Which of the following psychotherapeutic techniques is most likely to be used by a client-centered therapist?

Scolding misbehaving children in a classroom may actually increase misbehavior because of the

Mrs.Parker's first grade has gotten used to just calling out Mrs.Parker's name to get her attention.Mrs.Parker has decided that she will only call on the students who quietly raise their hands to get her attention, while she will not attend to those students who loudly call out her name.Eventually, the students will stop loudly calling out her name because of the behavioral principle of

Unlike existential therapy, which therapy seeks to uncover one's "true self" hidden behind a screen of defenses?

Regarding the success of deinstitutionalization, which of the following statements is FALSE?