Question 1

Lee Ann's psychotherapist draws attention to Lee Ann's posture, voice, and gestures in order to help Lee Ann to become fully aware of her feelings so she can "take care of unfinished business." Lee Ann's therapist is most likely a(n)__________ psychotherapist.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Lee Ann's psychotherapist draws attention to Lee...

Question 2

Regarding psychosurgery, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) Psychosurgery is a form of somatic therapy for psychological disorders. 
B) Psychosurgery is defined as any surgical alteration of the brain designed to bring about desirable behavioral changes. 
C) Psychosurgery is the preferred method of treatment for people suffering from severe depression or schizophrenia. 
D) Psychosurgery includes the procedure known as the "lobotomy."

Question 3

When the symptoms of a disorder, such as hyperactivity or anxiety, improve due to the mere passage of time, it is called

Accepted Answer

A) a spontaneous remission. 
B) catharsis. 
C) active remediation. 
D) reverse psychology.

Question 4

The procedure known as transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)

Accepted Answer

A) is the apparatus used to deliver the electric currents during ECT treatments. 
B) is a type of pseudopsychology in which people wear light-weight magnet headbands to cure mental illness. 
C) involves the use of the MRI scans in performing deep lesioning on the brain. 
D) uses magnetic pulses to temporarily block activity in specific parts of the brain.

Question 5

Sarento's fear of flying is treated by exposing him to a three-dimensional, computer-generated "world" in which he can experience walking onto a plane, being seated, and taking off. This computerized environment that responds to a viewer's head movements and other inputs is part of a behavioral therapy known as

Accepted Answer

A) EMDR. 
B) virtual reality exposure. 
C) covert sensitization. 
D) aversive conditioning.

Question 6

Confrontation in which clients are challenged to examine their values and choices and to take responsibility for the quality of their existence is a key aspect of

Accepted Answer

A) psychoanalysis. 
B) existential therapy. 
C) client-centered therapy. 
D) systematic desensitization.

Question 7

Saying whatever comes to mind, even if it seems senseless, painful, or embarrassing, is part of the Freudian technique known as

Accepted Answer

A) dream analysis. 
B) analysis of transference. 
C) free association. 
D) analysis of resistance.

Question 8

Regarding cultural awareness and being a culturally skilled therapist, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) Cultural awareness has helped broaden our ideas about mental health and optimal development. 
B) Cultural barriers apply to communication in all areas of life, not just therapy. 
C) One of the main jobs of a culturally skilled therapist is to help clients adapt to the cultural norms of the majority culture as quickly as possible to aid their treatment. 
D) The culturally skilled therapist must be open to cultural differences without resorting to stereotypes.

Question 9

Since cognitive and behavioral therapies directly change troublesome thoughts and actions, these therapies would be considered insight therapies.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Under the supervision of Dr. Abbot, Hannah, who is an ex-alcoholic, helps with group counseling for alcoholics and drug addicts at the community mental health center. In her near-professional capacity, Hannah is considered a(n)__________.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Under the supervision of Dr. Abbot, Hannah,...

Question 11

In choosing a therapist, it would be wise to remember that

Accepted Answer

A) the therapist's personal qualities may be more important than the type of therapy used. 
B) psychiatrists are usually better qualified to deal with problems than are psychologists. 
C) once you begin therapy, you should not consider changing to someone new. 
D) the training and credentials of a therapist are of little importance.

Question 12

Discuss the history of how mental illness has been treated from the Stone Age, through the Middle Ages until Pinel's work in France, including the approaches used and which mental disorders that their "patients" were probably suffering from.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Discuss the history of how mental illness...

Question 13

Regarding the prefrontal lobotomy, which of the following statements is FALSE?

Accepted Answer

A) Prefrontal lobotomies produced calming effects or no change in some patients. 
B) Prefrontal lobotomies turned some patients into mental "vegetables." 
C) Prefrontal lobotomies are used today to treat major depressions when drugs do not work. 
D) Prefrontal lobotomies involved surgically disconnecting the frontal lobes from other brain areas.

Question 14

Charles was rejected by his long-time girlfriend. He has decided that no other woman will love him, that his co-workers and the people who say they are his friends must also dislike him, too. Charles has let his rejection by his girlfriend "color" his perceptions of other areas in his life. Beck referred to this as

Accepted Answer

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

Question 15

Who is credited with developing the first true psychotherapy a little more than 100 years ago to treat what he called cases of hysteria?

Accepted Answer

A) Sigmund Freud 
B) Fritz Perls 
C) Hans Eysenck 
D) Victor Frankl

Question 16

In conducting therapy, Ralph attempts to achieve genuine empathy and strives to be authentic while offering the persons he counsels unconditional positive regard and a reflection of their thoughts and feelings rather than making interpretations or giving advice. Ralph is most likely a(n)

Accepted Answer

A) psychoanalyst. 
B) REBT therapist. 
C) client-centered therapist. 
D) cognitive therapist.

Question 17

Ashley is counseling her best friend who says she is depressed. Ashley asks her friend if she feels depressed just at school or if she feels this way in other situations. Ashley is using which basic counseling skill?

Accepted Answer

A) giving advice 
B) clarifying the problem 
C) imposing her view of reality on the problem 
D) keeping the conversation going with absolutely no silence

Question 18

Jeffery and Logan are brothers who are fighting over a new toy. Their mother sends them to separate rooms until they can calm down and agree to share the toy and play "nicely." Mother is using the operant conditioning technique known as

Accepted Answer

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

Question 19

Rather than treating Curtis' acrophobia by forcing him to stand on the balcony of a tall building, a therapist would probably be better off to gradually expose Curtis to increasing levels of heights, a technique called

Accepted Answer

A) aversion therapy. 
B) flooding. 
C) transference. 
D) systematic desensitization.

Question 20

Classical conditioning can be used to associate discomfort with a bad habit. More powerful versions of this approach are called

Accepted Answer

A) aversion therapy. 
B) logotherapy. 
C) systematic desensitization. 
D) analysis of resistance.

Exam 15: Therapies