Question 1

Amy is having a small party in her apartment.Her next door neighbor asks her if she could turn down the music because she has to get up and work tomorrow.Amy tells her friends that "the old woman next door is such a pain that I'm going to turn the music up even louder." According to REBT, Amy

Accepted Answer

A)  has a central trait of vindictiveness. 
B)  has an unrealistic belief that her next door neighbor is thoroughly bad and should be punished. 
C)  is exhibiting an oral aggressive personality due to "being spoiled" as a child. 
D)  is exhibiting a transference of feelings from her overcontrolling mother to her next door neighbor.

Question 2

Fears can be unlearned by approaching feared situations in a series of ordered steps called

Accepted Answer

A)  the aversion series. 
B)  adaptation steps. 
C)  inhibition states. 
D)  a fear hierarchy.

Question 3

Skilled management of a psychological emergency is referred to as

Accepted Answer

A)  crisis intervention. 
B)  ECT. 
C)  EMDR. 
D)  deinstitutionalization.

Question 4

Because of a gambling addiction, Maria is seeing a cognitive therapist, who will most likely help her to

Accepted Answer

A)  understand what in her past growing up caused her to gamble. 
B)  make the courageous choices that will cause her life to be meaningful without gambling. 
C)  break through her emotional impasses and express her feelings regarding her gambling addiction. 
D)  restructure her thoughts so that she no longer believes that she can control chance events, such as gambling.

Question 5

Two-year-old Dennis is outside with his mother when he begins pulling the dog's ears.When he refuses to stop, his mother picks Dennis up and carries him back into the house and away from their dog.Dennis is experiencing

Accepted Answer

A)  shaping. 
B)  stimulus control. 
C)  reciprocal inhibition. 
D)  time out.

Question 6

Although the drug clozapine (Clozaril)can relieve the symptoms of schizophrenia, two out of 100 patients taking the drug suffer from a potentially fatal blood disease.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Stimulus control is an operant conditioning procedure in which

Accepted Answer

A)  a response is followed by discomfort or an undesirable effect. 
B)  close approximations to a desired response are rewarded. 
C)  a person is removed from a situation to prevent reward. 
D)  responses come under the influence of the situation in which they occur.

Question 8

Which is NOT a preparation for using desensitization?

Accepted Answer

A)  learning to relax 
B)  learning to visualize the reinforcement you are going to give yourself 
C)  constructing a hierarchy of fearful situations 
D)  setting aside times to practice relaxation as you vividly visualize scenes from the hierarchy

Question 9

Aversion therapy has been used to successfully treat all of the following EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

A)  smoking, gambling, and alcoholism. 
B)  hiccups, sneezing, and vomiting. 
C)  stuttering, nail-biting, and bed-wetting. 
D)  acute stress and posttraumatic stress disorders.

Question 10

Many of Freud's first patients had physical symptoms, such as paralysis or numbness, for which no physical causes could be found.Freud called this condition

Accepted Answer

A)  schizophrenia. 
B)  an organic psychosis. 
C)  hysteria. 
D)  ergotism.

Question 11

Regarding virtual reality exposure, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A)  In virtual reality exposure, anxiety-provoking stimuli are presented to clients in a controlled way within a computer-generated world. 
B)  Virtual reality exposure has been used to create immersive distracting environments to help patients reduce the experience of pain. 
C)  Virtual reality exposure has been used to treat fear of heights, fear of spiders, and fear of public speaking. 
D)  Virtual reality exposure is a type of aversion therapy.

Question 12

In working to solve a client's problems, an important tool for any therapist is the caring relationship that unites the therapist and the client, which is referred to as the

Accepted Answer

A)  therapeutic transference. 
B)  authenticity. 
C)  unconditional positive regard. 
D)  therapeutic alliance.

Question 13

To find out if therapy works, researchers randomly place clients in an experimental group that receives therapy and a control group that does not receive therapy, which is known as the __________ control group.

Accepted Answer

The answer of To find out if therapy works, researchers...

Question 14

Currently, psychological services are available through

Accepted Answer

A)  the radio and television. 
B)  the telephone. 
C)  the Internet. 
D)  all of these.

Question 15

Attempting to control a habit by associating it with something disturbing in one's imagination is a behavior technique called

Accepted Answer

A)  covert association. 
B)  negative association. 
C)  covert sensitization. 
D)  negative reinforcement.

Question 16

As a modern procedure, trepanning, also called trephining, involves

Accepted Answer

A)  the use of computer-generated images to present fear stimuli in the desensitization process. 
B)  the suppression of an undesirable response by associating it with aversive stimuli. 
C)  passing an electric shock directly through the brain to induce a convulsion. 
D)  any surgical procedure in which a hole is bored into the skull.

Question 17

Lindsay fails an accounting test.Lindsay now believes that she should probably change to a non-business major, that she should quit her part-time job at the bank, and should resign as the treasurer for the business club, even though she is quite good at all of these activities.Lindsay's behavior exemplifies the distortion of thinking cognitive therapists call

Accepted Answer

A)  all-or-nothing thinking. 
B)  personification. 
C)  overgeneralization. 
D)  selective perception.

Question 18

Jan has a fear of riding across bridges.In order to get her over her phobia, she is asked to imagine a series of increasingly distressing images involving her riding in a car across increasingly longer bridges.The most distressing being imagining herself driving across the Lake Pontchartrain Bridge to her cousin's house.This procedure is a type of

Accepted Answer

A)  desensitization. 
B)  transference. 
C)  in-vivo exposure. 
D)  imagery rehearsal.

Question 19

Marcus has schizophrenia and his doctor has recommended that he change to a new drug that can reduce his hallucinations and delusions without the lethal risk or side effects of other similar drugs.His doctor will most likely be prescribing

Accepted Answer

A)  Norpramin. 
B)  Anafranil. 
C)  Zyprexa. 
D)  Nardil.

Question 20

Which of the following types of drugs are used to reduce hallucinations and delusions?

Accepted Answer

A)  antidepressants 
B)  anxiolytics 
C)  major tranquilizers 
D)  energizers

Exam 15: Therapies.