Exam 12: Treatment: Healing Actions, Healing Words

Exposure rests on the learning principle of ________.

For ________ disorders, certain forms of psychotherapy provide ________ long -term relief of symptoms as do medication.

Which of the following is a key component of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis?

After many sessions of psychodynamic therapy, Dan at some point experiences reluctance to cooperate with his therapist and tends to forget to do what his therapist had suggested to him. Dan is experiencing ________.

Sylvia, who is undergoing client-centered therapy, has been told that she experiences an incongruence between her ________self and her _______self.

Based on relevant research on treatment of psychological disorders, why might someone choose psychotherapy over medication in order to treat depression?

An example of a self-monitoring technique would be ________.

Elyn was recently treated with electroconvulsive therapy. She is mostly likely experiencing which psychological disorder?

Emily is a psychologist who believes that many psychological difficulties are a result of a conflict between the id, ego, and superego. Emily most likely endorses which type of therapy?

The technique of ________ involves controlling the exposure to a stimulus that elicits a conditioned response.

A therapist is interested in helping her client get a clearer understanding of his motives and actions. This therapist is most likely to be a/an ____________.

How are atypical antipsychotics different from traditional antipsychotic medications?

A physician prescribes a benzodiazepine drug to help alleviate your anxiety. Which drug might you be taking?

The kind of therapy that involves talking things out with a professional is called__________________.

If Cheryl is engaged in progressive muscle relaxation, then she is most likely ________.

Exposure is a technique that has been shown to be highly ineffective with anxiety disorders.

What did Carl Rogers view as a cause of most personal problems and unhappiness?

_________ strengthens a response by following it with the removal of an unpleasant stimulus.

Free association is a technique used in psychoanalysis.

For which of these problems would systematic desensitization most likely be used?