Exam 17: Treatment of Psychological Disorders

Let's say that you have a strong fear of flying. To treat this fear, your therapist asks you to enter a plane and fly until you are no longer showing anxiety. Your therapist has just used the technique of

Carl Rogers was convinced that the most important curative agent in psychotherapy is ________.

Two key assumptions of the ___________ approach to therapy are that psychological disorders are learned in exactly the same way as normal behaviours are and that they can be treated by applying the basic principles of learning.

A previously positive conditioned stimulus (CS) is paired with a noxious stimulus in an attempt to eliminate the undesirable behaviour evoked by the CS in _________________________.

Martin Seligman's "Consumer Reports" survey regarding the utility of psychotherapy could be criticized on the grounds that ________.

Which of the following individuals made a major criticism of therapy in the 1950s by showing that people recovered from psychological problems as well without treatment as they did when seeing a psychotherapist?

Research on cultural competency in therapists suggests that training does not successfully increase cultural competency.

Surveys suggest that among people between the ages of 18 and 74 those who use anti-anxiety drugs to treat their symptoms of anxiety are approximately ___________.

Of the alternatives below, a factor NOT shared by diverse forms of therapy is

Imagine that you are looking for a way increase the frequency of certain behaviours that you want to encourage in a child, while reducing the incidence of behaviours you want to discourage. What method would be appropriate for that purpose?

To increase the insight of their clients, psychoanalysts use the primary therapeutic technique of ____________.

You are treating a patient and want to use a behaviour therapy. However, the hospital insists that the therapy must be based on operant conditioning. Which of the following should you choose?

Though Ripley typically thinks of himself as an A/B student, when he receives a C in British literature he's thrilled. He tells his sister that he was confused throughout the class and expected to fail it completely. Ripley feels better than he might have had he received the grade in another class due to

During your psychoanalytic therapy session, you begin to treat the therapist with feelings of intense affection. You even think that perhaps you are falling in love. In psychodynamic terms, this can be explained by

As part of a smoking cessation program, Paul receives an injection of a nausea-inducing drug and then is asked to smoke a cigarette. Even though he knows he is receiving the drug, it is hoped that Paul will associate the nausea symptoms with smoking and will thus smoke less. This example best demonstrates the procedures typically used in

Studies showing that most of the therapeutic improvement of clients occurs by the 10^th session of psychodynamic therapy were presented to make the argument that

A company offers its employees a class in stress management and relaxation techniques in the hopes that it will ultimately help employees remain healthier and miss less time at work. Such an intervention program would best be classified as an example of

Which of the following is not a major category of therapies for psychological disorders discussed in your textbook?

Exposure therapy is based almost entirely on the principles of operant conditioning.

Questions such as, "Are there other less painful options available?" and "How damaging is the specific behaviour to the individual and/or society/" are most relevant to the use of which of the following treatments for abnormal behaviour?