Question 1

ECT is used primarily to treat _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  phobias 
B)  conduct disorders 
C)  depression 
D)  schizophrenia

Question 2

_____ modeling combines live modeling with direct and gradual practice.

Accepted Answer

A)  Practice 
B)  Participant 
C)  Directed 
D)  Graduated

Question 3

Barney read the script wrong three times in a row during this morning's show. He believes his career is over, and he is filled with self-hatred. Beck would say Barney is at risk for developing depression because he is engaging in _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  selective perception 
B)  overgeneralization 
C)  transference 
D)  self-defeating behavior

Question 4

Define psychotherapy. Discuss biomedical therapy and the eclectic approach to therapy. Describe the five goals of therapy, and state which approaches to therapy focus on each of these goals.

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Question 5

Dr. Novak is working with Hal, who is very shy. As Hal practices meeting and conversing with imaginary people during his therapy session, Dr. Novak provides feedback and rewards him for each behavior that would meet with approval in a real social setting. What's happening here?

Accepted Answer

A)  Dr. Novak and Hal are role playing. 
B)  Dr. Novak and Hal are engaging in behavior rehearsal. 
C)  Dr. Novak is shaping Hal's social behavior. 
D)  All of these options

Question 6

Describe the six culturally universal characteristics of therapy. Discuss the differences in therapy found in individualist versus collectivist cultures.

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Question 7

Eudoxie covers her husband's alcohol-related absences by lying to his boss. A behavior therapist is MOST likely to say that Eudoxie's problem is _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  her marriage 
B)  best treated by attending Alanon meetings 
C)  her husband's alcohol-related behavior 
D)  lying to her husband's boss

Question 8

State the basic assumption underlying humanistic therapies. Briefly describe the four qualities of client-therapist communication advocated by Rogers.

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Question 9

In psychoanalysis, free association refers to _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  unproductive sessions for which the client is not charged 
B)  a thought process that has no underlying cause or motivation 
C)  reporting whatever comes to mind without monitoring its contents 
D)  purposefully bizarre and disconnected associations

Question 10

A _____ has usually had four years of graduate school and one or more supervised internships; a _____ is a medical doctor who has completed a one-year internship and a three-year supervised residency in the biological and therapeutic treatment of mental disorders.

Accepted Answer

A)  licensed clinical social worker; psychologist 
B)  psychologist; licensed clinical psychologist 
C)  psychologist; psychiatrist 
D)  counselor; psychologist

Question 11

The nonjudgmental attitude and genuine caring that a therapist expresses toward a client is called _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  unconditional positive regard 
B)  unconditional caring 
C)  genuine acceptance 
D)  genuine positive regard

Question 12

Behavior therapists use classical conditioning techniques to decrease maladaptive behaviors by _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  rewarding adaptive behaviors 
B)  punishing maladaptive behaviors 
C)  creating new associations to replace faulty ones 
D)  all of these option

Question 13

Community Mental Health Centers (CMHs):

Accepted Answer

A)  provide inpatient services 
B)  provide outpatient services 
C)  are inexpensive to staff and to run 
D)  all of the above are true of CMHs

Question 14

Leandra is brought to a mental health clinic by a neighbor who reports that Leandra has been disoriented for days, and is unable to feed herself or find shelter. The clinic's psychiatrist is MOST likely to _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  give her an antipsychotic medication and send her home 
B)  send her to a homeless shelter where she can get medication 
C)  authorize temporary commitment to a mental hospital 
D)  commit her for long-term care in a psychiatric hospital

Question 15

Lewis and Farrah are seeing a marriage counselor. The counselor role-plays appropriate requests and responses for getting each of their needs met, and then asks the couple to practice doing this themselves in order to resolve a mild problem. Over the next several sessions, they practice resolving harder and harder problems, with appropriate modeling from the counselor, as needed. This is called _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  problem-solving therapy 
B)  participant modeling 
C)  therapist-directed learning 
D)  graduated practice

Question 16

_____ is Ellis's approach to therapy

Accepted Answer

A)  Rational Event-related Action Learning (REAL) 
B)  Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) 
C)  Doing-Emoting-Behaving Therapy (DEBT) 
D)  Behavior-Motivation Therapy (BMT)

Question 17

This is a stage in psychoanalysis in which a patient avoids the analyst's attempts to bring threatening unconscious material into conscious awareness.

Accepted Answer

A)  Blocked association 
B)  Failed transference 
C)  Resistance 
D)  Counterresistance

Question 18

Which of the following is NOT true of behavior therapy?

Accepted Answer

A)  The focus is on the problem behavior 
B)  Knowledge of the underlying causes of behavior is not considered necessary for change to occur 
C)  Feelings and interpretations are ignored or disregarded 
D)  The therapist looks for maladaptive behaviors occurring and adaptive behaviors that are not occurring.

Question 19

Behaviorists reply to criticisms of their treatment approach by saying, _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  "You know what you can do with Freud's couch!" 
B)  "Behavior therapy increases personal control by making the rewards and punishments that influence behavior obvious." 
C)  "Cognitive, schmognitive!" 
D)  "ECT is much more shocking!"

Question 20

Define group therapies and describe three advantages of this kind of therapy. Differentiate among group therapy, self-help groups, and family therapy. Provide specific examples of the latter two therapies.

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Exam 15: Psychotherapy