Question 1

Cognitive therapists, like psychoanalytic and humanistic therapists:

Accepted Answer

A)  focus exclusively on early childhood experiences and its cognitive link to the current trauma faced by clients. 
B)  aim to foster self-insight, but they mainly aim to help make people more aware of their current cognitions. 
C)  are of the opinion that people with psychological disorders should be kept in asylums, but they do not recommend the use of shock therapy. 
D)  encourage strict and tedious mental and physical exercises. 
A)  focus exclusively on early childhood experiences and its cognitive link to the current trauma faced by clients. 
B)  aim to foster self-insight, but they mainly aim to help make people more aware of their current cognitions. 
C)  are of the opinion that people with psychological disorders should be kept in asylums, but they do not recommend the use of shock therapy. 
D)  encourage strict and tedious mental and physical exercises.

Question 2

Virtual therapy relies exclusively on dream analysis.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 3

In the context of psychosurgery, in__________, physicians beam streams of radiation deep into the skull, destroying spots of tissue believed to be overactive in severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Accepted Answer

A)  prefrontal lobotomy 
B)  electroconvulsive therapy 
C)  gamma knife surgery 
D)  split-brain surgery 
A)  prefrontal lobotomy 
B)  electroconvulsive therapy 
C)  gamma knife surgery 
D)  split-brain surgery

Question 4

Which of the following is a difference between traditional psychoanalysis and humanistic therapies?

Accepted Answer

A)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on bio-psychological disorders, while humanistic therapies focus on early childhood experiences. 
B)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on client-centered therapy, while humanistic therapies focus on the process of transference. 
C)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on early childhood experiences, while humanistic therapies focus on what clients are experiencing here and now. 
D)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on unconditional positive regard, while humanistic therapies focus on ego analysis. 
A)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on bio-psychological disorders, while humanistic therapies focus on early childhood experiences. 
B)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on client-centered therapy, while humanistic therapies focus on the process of transference. 
C)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on early childhood experiences, while humanistic therapies focus on what clients are experiencing here and now. 
D)  Traditional psychoanalysis focuses on unconditional positive regard, while humanistic therapies focus on ego analysis.

Question 5

Aaron Beck's methods of cognitive therapy focus on arguing clients out of beliefs that are making them miserable and exposing them to situations they avoid because of irrational fear.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following statements is true of psychiatrist Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy?

Accepted Answer

A)  Aaron Beck believed in distancing clients from situations that arouse fear. 
B)  Aaron Beck believed that clients may selectively perceive the world as a harmful place and ignore evidence to the contrary. 
C)  Aaron Beck stated that people with psychological disorders are best treated in asylums. 
D)  Aaron Beck stated that people with psychological disorders are not capable of engaging in absolutist thinking. 
A)  Aaron Beck believed in distancing clients from situations that arouse fear. 
B)  Aaron Beck believed that clients may selectively perceive the world as a harmful place and ignore evidence to the contrary. 
C)  Aaron Beck stated that people with psychological disorders are best treated in asylums. 
D)  Aaron Beck stated that people with psychological disorders are not capable of engaging in absolutist thinking.

Question 7

Behavior therapists see the effectiveness of behavior therapy as deriving from specific, learning-based procedures.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

In biofeedback training, therapists attach clients to devices that measure bodily functions such as heart rate.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

In Gestalt therapy, a therapist:

Accepted Answer

A)  leads clients through planned experiences to heighten their awareness of inner conflict. 
B)  chooses a nondirective approach. 
C)  discourages a client from making free choices. 
D)  does not take into account the inner conflicts of a client. 
A)  leads clients through planned experiences to heighten their awareness of inner conflict. 
B)  chooses a nondirective approach. 
C)  discourages a client from making free choices. 
D)  does not take into account the inner conflicts of a client.

Question 10

Joan avoids talking about her troubled marriage with her psychoanalyst. When she is asked to talk about the relationship, she becomes restless and claims, "There is nothing to tell." Which of the following is indicated by Joan's behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  Transference 
B)  Catharsis 
C)  Free association 
D)  Resistance 
A)  Transference 
B)  Catharsis 
C)  Free association 
D)  Resistance

Question 11

In the context of humanistic therapies,__________encourages self-exploration and self-expression, and aims to provide insight into the parts of us that we have disowned so that we can feel whole.

Accepted Answer

A)  mobilization therapy 
B)  client-centered therapy 
C)  dream analysis 
D)  ego analysis 
A)  mobilization therapy 
B)  client-centered therapy 
C)  dream analysis 
D)  ego analysis

Question 12

Which of the following is true of client-centered therapists?

Accepted Answer

A)  They follow a directive approach. 
B)  They seldom empathize with their clients as it might make them weak. 
C)  They have unconditional positive regard for their clients. 
D)  They are seldom open in responding to their clients as it might hurt their feelings. 
A)  They follow a directive approach. 
B)  They seldom empathize with their clients as it might make them weak. 
C)  They have unconditional positive regard for their clients. 
D)  They are seldom open in responding to their clients as it might hurt their feelings.

Question 13

Cognitive therapy is:

Accepted Answer

A)  likely to focus on changing the beliefs and attitudes that create and compound people's problems. 
B)  likely to focus on past experiences that contribute to psychological disorders and not on present attitudes of people. 
C)  unlikely to directly change maladaptive thoughts. 
D)  unlikely to foster self-insight. 
A)  likely to focus on changing the beliefs and attitudes that create and compound people's problems. 
B)  likely to focus on past experiences that contribute to psychological disorders and not on present attitudes of people. 
C)  unlikely to directly change maladaptive thoughts. 
D)  unlikely to foster self-insight.

Question 14

Client-centered therapists focus on telling clients what to do, instead of helping them arrive at their own decisions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 15

__________refers to a behavior-therapy method for helping people in their interpersonal relations that utilizes self-monitoring, behavior rehearsal, and feedback.

Accepted Answer

A)  Dream analysis 
B)  Social skills training 
C)  Biofeedback training 
D)  Cognitive therapy 
A)  Dream analysis 
B)  Social skills training 
C)  Biofeedback training 
D)  Cognitive therapy

Question 16

Why did Fritz Perls adopt the term Gestaltto name the therapy originated by him?

Accepted Answer

A)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to signify his interest in giving the conflicting parts of the personality an integrated form or shape. 
B)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to signify his interest in a spiritual way of cleansing a person's mind of psychological inhibitions. 
C)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to distinguish his method of therapy from the approaches used in client-centered therapy. 
D)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to convey the directive approach of his therapy. 
A)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to signify his interest in giving the conflicting parts of the personality an integrated form or shape. 
B)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to signify his interest in a spiritual way of cleansing a person's mind of psychological inhibitions. 
C)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to distinguish his method of therapy from the approaches used in client-centered therapy. 
D)  Fritz Perls used the term Gestalt to convey the directive approach of his therapy.

Question 17

When mental hospitals replaced asylums in the United States, the mental hospital's function was warehousing, not treatment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 18

Which of the following is true of rational emotive behavior therapists?

Accepted Answer

A)  They encourage clients to challenge and correct irrational expectations. 
B)  They focus exclusively on interpreting dreams and childhood experiences. 
C)  They believe that traumatic events alone, not our beliefs about the events, shape our responses to them. 
D)  They aim to magnify the psychological problems in clients to understand their origin. 
A)  They encourage clients to challenge and correct irrational expectations. 
B)  They focus exclusively on interpreting dreams and childhood experiences. 
C)  They believe that traumatic events alone, not our beliefs about the events, shape our responses to them. 
D)  They aim to magnify the psychological problems in clients to understand their origin.

Question 19

Dr. Thomas, a psychiatrist, works at a facility that treats people with psychological disorders as outpatients rather than sending them to hospitals. He also helps people who have been released from hospitals. Most of the people treated by him have chronic psychological disorders. Dr. Thomas works at a(n) _____.

Accepted Answer

A)  asylum 
B)  retail clinic 
C)  community mental health center 
D)  residential treatment center 
A)  asylum 
B)  retail clinic 
C)  community mental health center 
D)  residential treatment center

Question 20

Historically speaking, "treatments" of psychological disorders tended to involve cruel practices such as exorcism and execution. This reflected the assumption that:

Accepted Answer

A)  people were biologically programmed to do evil. 
B)  people who behaved in strange ways were possessed by demons. 
C)  only those patients, who have chances of recovery, should be provided treatment. 
D)  patients who are released from mental hospitals could face a relapse. 
A)  people were biologically programmed to do evil. 
B)  people who behaved in strange ways were possessed by demons. 
C)  only those patients, who have chances of recovery, should be provided treatment. 
D)  patients who are released from mental hospitals could face a relapse.

Cognitive therapists, like psychoanalytic and humanistic therapists:

Virtual therapy relies exclusively on dream analysis.

In the context of psychosurgery, in__________, physicians beam streams of radiation deep into the skull, destroying spots of tissue believed to be overactive in severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Which of the following is a difference between traditional psychoanalysis and humanistic therapies?

Aaron Beck's methods of cognitive therapy focus on arguing clients out of beliefs that are making them miserable and exposing them to situations they avoid because of irrational fear.

Which of the following statements is true of psychiatrist Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy?

Behavior therapists see the effectiveness of behavior therapy as deriving from specific, learning-based procedures.

In biofeedback training, therapists attach clients to devices that measure bodily functions such as heart rate.

In Gestalt therapy, a therapist:

Joan avoids talking about her troubled marriage with her psychoanalyst. When she is asked to talk about the relationship, she becomes restless and claims, "There is nothing to tell." Which of the following is indicated by Joan's behavior?

In the context of humanistic therapies,__________encourages self-exploration and self-expression, and aims to provide insight into the parts of us that we have disowned so that we can feel whole.

Which of the following is true of client-centered therapists?

Cognitive therapy is:

Client-centered therapists focus on telling clients what to do, instead of helping them arrive at their own decisions.

__________refers to a behavior-therapy method for helping people in their interpersonal relations that utilizes self-monitoring, behavior rehearsal, and feedback.

Why did Fritz Perls adopt the term Gestaltto name the therapy originated by him?

When mental hospitals replaced asylums in the United States, the mental hospital's function was warehousing, not treatment.

Which of the following is true of rational emotive behavior therapists?

Historically speaking, "treatments" of psychological disorders tended to involve cruel practices such as exorcism and execution. This reflected the assumption that:

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Cognitive therapists, like psychoanalytic and humanistic therapists:

Virtual therapy relies exclusively on dream analysis.

In the context of psychosurgery, in__________, physicians beam streams of radiation deep into the skull, destroying spots of tissue believed to be overactive in severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Which of the following is a difference between traditional psychoanalysis and humanistic therapies?

Aaron Beck's methods of cognitive therapy focus on arguing clients out of beliefs that are making them miserable and exposing them to situations they avoid because of irrational fear.

Which of the following statements is true of psychiatrist Aaron Beck's cognitive therapy?

Behavior therapists see the effectiveness of behavior therapy as deriving from specific, learning-based procedures.

In biofeedback training, therapists attach clients to devices that measure bodily functions such as heart rate.

In Gestalt therapy, a therapist:

Joan avoids talking about her troubled marriage with her psychoanalyst. When she is asked to talk about the relationship, she becomes restless and claims, "There is nothing to tell." Which of the following is indicated by Joan's behavior?

In the context of humanistic therapies,__________encourages self-exploration and self-expression, and aims to provide insight into the parts of us that we have disowned so that we can feel whole.

Which of the following is true of client-centered therapists?

Cognitive therapy is:

Client-centered therapists focus on telling clients what to do, instead of helping them arrive at their own decisions.

__________refers to a behavior-therapy method for helping people in their interpersonal relations that utilizes self-monitoring, behavior rehearsal, and feedback.

Why did Fritz Perls adopt the term Gestaltto name the therapy originated by him?

When mental hospitals replaced asylums in the United States, the mental hospital's function was warehousing, not treatment.

Which of the following is true of rational emotive behavior therapists?

Historically speaking, "treatments" of psychological disorders tended to involve cruel practices such as exorcism and execution. This reflected the assumption that:

What Is Psychology

Biology and Psychology

Sensation and Perception

Consciousness

Learning

Memory: Remembrance of Things Pastand Future

Thinking, Language, and Intelligence

Motivation and Emotion

The Voyage Through the Life Span

Personality: Theory and Measurement

Stress, Health, and Coping

Psychological Disorders

Social Psychology

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