Quiz #12

7 October 2022
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Clients have been found to benefit from participating in _____________ over the internet.
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cognitive-behavioral therapy
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Echoing, restating, and clarifying what a client expresses is most central to the process of
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active listening
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Cognitiveherapy works, too-down, by changing thought processes. Antidepressant drugs work, bottom-up, on the emotion-forming
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limbic system
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Empathetic understanding of the patient's subjective experiences is a major goal of
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client-centered therapy
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The placebo effect refers to
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the beneficial consequences of merely expecting that a treatment will be effective.
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Deep-brain stimulation has been reported to provide relief from
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depression
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The relentless reversal of overgeneralized, self-blaming thoughts by depressed clients is called
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catastrophizing
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Group therapy is typically more effective than individual therapy for
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enabling people to discover that others have similar to their own
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Which form of therapy has most directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals?
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drug therapy
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Rapidly moving one's eyes while recalling traumatic experiences is most descriptive of
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EMDR
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Psychodynamic therapy techniques involve efforts to understand patients; current symptoms by focusing on recurring patterns in their
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interpersonal relationships
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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
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behavior therapy
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Unlike psychodynamic therapists, humanistic therapists tend to focus on the ___________ more than the ___________.
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present; past
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Treating our mind and body as independent entities seems especially inappropriate to those who take a _____________ approach tot therapy.
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biopsychosocial
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Carl Rogers encouraged client-centered therapists to ______________ during the process of therapy.
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genuinely express their own true feelings
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Which therapeutic approach emphasizes that people are often disturbed because o Geri negative interpretations of events?
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cognitive therapy
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Which fo the following is a type of exposure therapy?
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systematic desensitization
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Psychological disorders that can be overcome with techniques such as counterconditioning are most likely to be treated with
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psychotherapy
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Stress inoculation training focuses on helping people to
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replace negative self-talk with more positive comments
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Selective seretonin reputake inhibitors are frequently prescribed for the treatment of
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depression
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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
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clients' accounts of the program's effectiveness were often misleading and overly positive
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Hans Eysenck launched a spirited debate regarding the effectiveness of psychotherapy because he found that it appeared to be
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no more beneficial than no treatment at all
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Ketamine is being explored as a quick-acting __________________ drug that blocks raptor sites for the neurotransmitter glutamate.
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antidepressant
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A common ingredient underlying the success of diverse psychotherapies is the
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client's expectation that psychotherapy will make things better
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The approach that has helped children with autism spectrum disorder learn to interact successfully involves
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operant conditioning
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MRI-gided precision surgery is occasionally done to cut the brain circuits involved in severe cases of
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obsessive-compulsive disorder
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Systematic desensitization involves replacing a negative response with a positive response, whereas ______________ involves replacing a positive response with. a negative response.
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aversive conditioning
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Some research confirms that ECT works by weakening connection in a "hyperconnected" neural hub in the left ____________ lobe.
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frontal
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Which of the following drugs have been found to be effective in treating the manic episodes associated with bipolar disorder?
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Depakote
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The value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing is in part due to the effectiveness of
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exposure therapy
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The healing power of insight and self-awareness is LEAST likely to be emphasizes by
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behavior therapies
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Cognitive therapies would be most likely to encourage depressed clients to
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stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.
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A token economy is to operant conditioning as __________________ is to classical conditioning.
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systematic desensitization
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"The technique reduces people to puppets controlled by therapists! It doesn't respect human freedom." This criticism is most likely to be directed at
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a token economy
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Evidence that placebos can reduce some of the distressing symptoms of psychological disorders best illustrates the therapeutic value of
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hope
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Psychoanalysis would most likely involve discouraging patients from
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discontinuing psychotherapy whenever they felt it was no longer necessary.
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In the United States, managed health care has limited the number of psychotherapy sessions that may be covered by insurance. This is particularly likely to discourage the widespread practice of
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psychoanalysis
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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
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drug therapies
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After discontinuing heavy use of an anti anxiety drug, Angela experienced increased anxiety and difficulty sleeping. Angela was experiencing symptoms of
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withdrawal
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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 ________________.
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a token economy