Exam 15: Psychological Therapies

Which of the following therapists has used modeling to treat phobias?

Which method was NOT used by Freud to identify repressed feelings?

Prefrontal lobotomy is a technique used in _______.

Albert Ellis is best known as a _______ therapist.

Which treatment is LEAST likely to be used today?

An ancient treatment for emotional disturbance was:

Which technique uses reinforcement to change behavior?

Jerry is 22 years old and still gets too many cavities from eating too many sweets.Jerry's dentist trains him to think of the pain of having his teeth drilled each time he reaches for a piece of candy.The dentist is using _______ to cure Jerry's excess eating of sweets.

The focus of behavior therapies is on:

During a case conference,a therapist says his recommendation is to use a technique based on classical conditioning that associates the client's drinking with an unpleasant stimuli.You recognize that the recommended treatment is:

Every time Jeanie opens her cigarette case or uses her lighter,she gets a painful electric shock.Jeanie's friends and family have been asked not to give her any cigarettes or light any for her,so she must use her own lighter if she wants to smoke.Eventually,Jeanie loses her desire to smoke,thanks to _______.

Virtually all antipsychotic drugs work by __________.

Beck's cognitive therapy is particularly effective in the treatment of __________.

In _______ therapy the person must learn an association between the target behavior and an unpleasant event.Thus,the person receives unpleasant consequences for the undesired behavior.

A humanistic psychologist would most likely agree that:

Which therapy does NOT assume that many psychological problems are the result of internal thoughts and feelings?

Client-centered therapy was founded by __________.

Valium,Librium and Miltown are popular _______ drugs.

A technique known as prefrontal lobotomy:

Electroconvulsive therapy is used to alleviate _______.