Exam 9: Behavior Therapies

Who defines what is adaptive and what is maladaptive behavior? This criticism of behavior therapy is leveled by:

Several meta-analyses have produced similar findings about the effectiveness of contingency management in reducing use of various drugs,including tobacco.Their findings show that contingency management is:

To get Jennifer to stand up for her rights more in social situations,her behavioral therapy is most likely to have:

The behavior therapies include a wide range of methods.Siev and Chambless' (2007)meta-analytic study of the effectiveness of relaxation training and cognitive therapy for generalized anxiety and panic disorders supports which of the following broad conclusion?

The text authors loosely distinguish between several behavioral therapy systems,and suggest that those most likely to be comfortable being called "behavior therapists" will:

Behavioral activation is a behavior therapy method that entails increasing exposure to the positive consequences of alternate (healthy)behavior.This method is an example of which process of change?

Relaxation training is a well-studied behavioral intervention used to treat a variety of clinical symptoms.Meta-analysis has documented:

Most of the classic behavioral research on self-control procedures suggests:

Small-n research designs consist of:

Ricardo has just successfully completed behavior therapy for his anxiety in learning how to use a computer and for his tendency to belittle his friends.At the outset of therapy it was discovered that Ricardo would do almost anything to avoid watching catastrophic events on the news.It was also learned that he possessed an immense collection of marbles,which he had been collecting since childhood.His therapist discovered that by having Ricardo watch catastrophic events following Ricardo's belittling of his friends,his performance of this behavior was reduced.In treating Ricardo's computer anxiety,he was given a marble each time he made an approximation toward the terminal response (a marble was given to him first for sitting in front of the computer,then for reading a book for 15 minutes about computers,then for turning on the computer,then for typing a letter on the computer,etc.).Once he learned how to use the computer,his behavior was maintained by giving him,on average,a marble for every hour he worked on the computer. -Which of the following was used to reduce Ricardo's anxiety toward computers?

Sharon has an IQ of 59.Which of the following is most likely to be employed?

Each of the following is included in the text authors' Three Cs of behavior therapy EXCEPT:

The most recent large meta-analysis comparing the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy,medication,and combined treatments for panic disorder with or without agoraphobia revealed each of the following EXCEPT:

To be called a "negative reinforcement," an event must be shown to:

The theorist most closely linked to the origins of cognitive-behavior modification is:

A 21-year-old female student engages her college's counseling center for treatment of symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder,including excessive worry,sleep disturbance,and irritability over the past six months.Based on the meta-analytic research evidence,which of the following therapy approaches is most likely to prove effective?

All behavior therapy offers to people seeking happiness and harmony in a dehumanizing world is a bunch of gimmicks and techniques.This is a criticism that would be leveled by:

Regarding the classical studies on the efficacy of behavior therapy,the vast majority of desensitization studies have been conducted on:

In the ABAB (reversal)research design,the person receiving the treatment is measured repeatedly during:

While behavioral therapies are most fundamentally based on learning theory,it can be said that: