Multiple Choice Questions

Deep-brain stimulation has been reported to provide relief from
  • depression
  • behavior therapies
  • antidepressant
  • active listening
Stress inoculation training focuses on helping people to
  • client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better
  • genuinely express their own true feelings
  • no more beneficial than no treatment at all
  • replace negative self-talk with more positive comments
The healing power of insight and self-awareness is LEAST likely to be emphasizes by
  • catastrophizing
  • behavior therapy
  • psychotherapy
  • behavior therapies
The placebo effect refers to
  • the beneficial consequences of merely expecting that a treatment will be effective.
  • replace negative self-talk with more positive comments
  • discontinuing psychotherapy whenever they felt it was no longer necessary.
  • stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.
Psychodynamic therapy techniques involve efforts to understand patients; current symptoms by focusing on recurring patterns in their
  • interpersonal relationships
  • psychotherapy
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • antidepressant
Which form of therapy has most directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals?
  • drug therapy
  • cognitive therapy
  • drug therapies
  • psychotherapy
Which of the following drugs have been found to be effective in treating the manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder?
  • cognitive therapy
  • Depakote
  • depression
  • systematic desensitization
A token economy is to operant conditioning as __________________ is to classical conditioning.
  • client-centered therapy
  • systematic desensitization
  • cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • present; past
The value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is in part due to the effectiveness of
  • behavior therapies
  • exposure therapy
  • enabling people to discover that others have similar to their own
  • catastrophizing
Psychoanalysis would most likely involve discouraging patients from
  • replace negative self-talk with more positive comments
  • the beneficial consequences of merely expecting that a treatment will be effective.
  • discontinuing psychotherapy whenever they felt it was no longer necessary.
  • stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.
Clients have been found to benefit from participating in _____________ over the internet.
  • cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • cognitive therapy
  • client-centered therapy
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
Which fo the following is a type of exposure therapy?
  • Depakote
  • systematic desensitization
  • client-centered therapy
  • cognitive-behavioral therapy
Rapidly moving one's eyes while recalling traumatic experiences is most descriptive of
  • client-centered therapy
  • depression
  • EMDR
  • Depakote
Empathetic understanding of the patient's subjective experiences is a major goal of
  • client-centered therapy
  • cognitive-behavioral therapy
  • systematic desensitization
  • behavior therapies
Psychological disorders that can be overcome with techniques such as counterconditioning are most likely to be treated with
  • biopsychosocial
  • drug therapy
  • present; past
  • psychotherapy
Mrs. Coleman is a withdrawn schizophrenia patient.. To help her become more socially active, institutional staff members give her small plastic cards whenever she talks to someone. She is allowed to exchange these cards for candy and cigarettes. Staff members are making use of ________________.
  • biopsychosocial
  • a token economy
  • psychotherapy
  • drug therapies
Group therapy is typically more effective than individual therapy for
  • operant conditioning
  • enabling people to discover that others have similar to their own
  • stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.
  • exposure therapy
In one treatment for bed-wetting, the child sleeps on a liquid-sensitive pad that when wet, triggers an alarm and awakens the child. This treatment is a form of
  • drug therapies
  • active listening
  • behavior therapy
  • behavior therapies
Ketamine is being explored as a quick-acting __________________ drug that blocks raptor sites for the neurotransmitter glutamate.
  • depression
  • antidepressant
  • active listening
  • biopsychosocial
Carl Rogers encouraged client-centered therapists to ______________ during the process of therapy.
  • genuinely express their own true feelings
  • no more beneficial than no treatment at all
  • client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
In one massive experiment, potentially delinquent boys were assigned to a 5-year treatment program that included professional counseling and family assistance. Many years later, Joan McCord's investigations of this programs effectiveness revealed that
  • behavior therapy
  • psychoanalysis
  • client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better
  • clients' accounts of the program's effectiveness were often misleading and overly positive
"The technique reduces people to puppets controlled by therapists! It doesn't respect human freedom." This criticism is most likely to be directed at
  • biopsychosocial
  • antidepressant
  • catastrophizing
  • a token economy
Treating our mind and body as independent entities seems especially inappropriate to those who take a _____________ approach tot therapy.
  • antidepressant
  • a token economy
  • drug therapies
  • biopsychosocial
The approach that has helped children with autism spectrum disorder learn to interact successfully involves
  • behavior therapies
  • enabling people to discover that others have similar to their own
  • present; past
  • operant conditioning
Selective seretonin reputake inhibitors are frequently prescribed for the treatment of
  • catastrophizing
  • active listening
  • depression
  • antidepressant
Dr. Genscher believes that most psychological disorders result from chemical imbalances. In her work as a therapist, Dr. Genscher is most likely to make use of
  • drug therapy
  • a token economy
  • biopsychosocial
  • drug therapies
Systematic desensitization involves replacing a negative response with a positive response, whereas ______________ involves replacing a positive response with. a negative response.
  • interpersonal relationships
  • obsessive-compulsive disorder
  • a token economy
  • aversive conditioning
Evidence that placebos can reduce some of the distressing symptoms of psychological disorders best illustrates the therapeutic value of
  • frontal
  • behavior therapy
  • psychotherapy
  • hope
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