Exam 4: Theoretical Perspectives

According to Hansell, feelings of detachment and alienation may be traced to a failure to:

The prognosis is the identification of the disorder according to the symptoms.

Humanists deny the psychoanalytic belief that human behavior is dominated by animalistic drives.

A type of medication sometimes used for its calming or "paradoxical" effect on hyperactive children is:

The aim of free association is to bring repressed material into conscious awareness.

Practitioners of this model attempt to find a balance between a person's mind, body, and spirit.

According to Freud, the superego contains the savage, lustful and sexual drives of the individual.

According to Freud's theory, the id is:

Humanists deny the psychoanalytic belief that human behavior is dominated by animalistic drives.

The human services model tends to place more emphasis on practical problem solving than on complex theories.

Systematic desensitization is primarily used to treat:

Disorders caused by physical abnormalities of the brain, nervous system, and other internal systems are called:

Classical conditioning involves the study of reflexes or responses elicited by certain stimuli.

In the systems model, the identified patient reflects disturbances:

In Freudian terms, the first system to appear in the development of the child is the:

The primary aim of human services counseling is to expose the bad experiences which the client suffered in the past.

Which model places most emphasis on scientific verification of observations?

One criticism of the humanistic approach is that it does not apply to clients who are not fully capable of making rational choices.

Freud believed that neurotic symptoms were due to:

Which is not considered a form of alternative therapy?