Exam 2: Contemporary Perspectives on Abnormal Behavior

George has been seeing a Freudian therapist for his troubles with anxiety. He reports that his therapist begins each session by saying "Tell me whatever comes to mind." George's therapist is using the Freudian technique of____________.

According to leading cognitive theorists, emotional distress is caused by the beliefs people hold about negative life experiences, not by the experiences themselves.

When we relax, the ______ decelerates the heart rate.

An example of a disorder that may be acquired through classical conditioning is ______.

The person most closely associated with operant conditioning is ______.

Unlike many psychological disorders, Alzheimer's disease ______.

According to sociocultural theorists, the linkage between low socioeconomic status and severe behavior problems may be explained by the ______.

Which of the following is a criticism of learning models of behavior?

Which of the following concepts would be important to a social-cognitive theorist?

Harlan suffers from bizarre hallucinations and delusions of persecution in which he believes demons are tormenting him. He often babbles aimlessly and contorts his body into Grotesque positions, claiming the demons are doing it to him. Freud would argue that Harlan Has ______.

Rogers believed that parents help children become more secure in their sense of self when they show them conditional positive regard.

Neural messages electrically jump across the synaptic cleft like a spark.

The area of the cortex most involved in memory, speech, language, and the controlling of voluntary muscle response is the ______ lobe.

Dr. Wong, a psychoanalyst, is troubled by his feelings toward his client, Trudy. Trudy is a reliable client and works hard in therapy. However, Dr. Wong feels intense rage when he meets with Trudy for her therapy session. Trudy reminds Dr. Wong of his mother, an individual that he harbors a lot of resentment toward. In Freudian analysis, the occurrence of Dr. Wong's feelings about Trudy are not considered unusual and are called _______________.

"How do a person's emotional problems reflect a distorted self-image?" is an example of the type of question a researcher who investigates the sociocultural perspective would ask.

Classical conditioning was discovered by accident.

With _________procedures, people seeking to overcome phobias put themselves in situations in which they engage fearful stimuli in real-life encounters.

Therapists evaluate the effectiveness of therapy by averaging the results of a large number of studies to determine an overall level of effectiveness. This method of investigating treatment effectiveness is called________.

The prefrontal cortex lies in front of the ______.

The autonomic nervous system has two branches, the _________.