Exam 15: C: Psychological Therapies

Cognitive models of therapy tend to focus on:

In _______,an unpleasant event is paired with a particular response in order to make that response less likely to occur.

What type of mental health professional must possess a doctorate in medicine?

The medical model views abnormal behavior as resulting from:

The major goal of insight therapies is to give people __________.

An archaic practice of chipping holes in a patient's skull to allow demons to escape is called:

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

Systematic and contact desensitization evolved from:

How do most antipsychotic drugs seem to work?

Making someone who is afraid of snakes handle dozens of snakes in an effort to get him to overcome his fear is called __________.

Psychotherapies that emphasize changing clients' perceptions of their life situation as a way of modifying their behavior are called __________.

Albert Ellis is best known as a _______ therapist.

What approach to therapy utilizes the principles of classical and operant conditioning?

In Gestalt therapy,the focus is on:

Psychoanalytic theory was developed by:

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

Freud believed that many psychological problems were the result of:

The belief that anxiety results from feelings and emotions repressed during childhood was proposed by _______.

Which of the following is NOT a primary technique associated with modern biomedical therapy?

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.