Question 1

What a psychodynamic therapist might call __________________, a cognitive therapist would call ____________________.

Accepted Answer

A)  unconscious material; automatic thoughts 
B)  repressed ideation; unconscious material 
C)  defensiveness; repressed urges 
D)  cognitions; schemas 
A)  unconscious material; automatic thoughts 
B)  repressed ideation; unconscious material 
C)  defensiveness; repressed urges 
D)  cognitions; schemas A

Question 2

What are the three main goals of cognitive therapy?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive therapy, also known as cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is a type of psychotherapeutic treatment that helps patients understand the thoughts and feelings that influence behaviors. It is commonly used to treat a wide range of disorders, including phobias, addiction, depression, and anxiety. The three main goals of cognitive therapy are:

1. **Identify and Correct Distorted Thinking Patterns**: One of the primary goals of cognitive therapy is to help individuals identify their distorted or maladaptive thinking patterns that are contributing to their psychological distress. These may include all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization, catastrophizing, and personalization. By recognizing these patterns, individuals can begin to understand how their thoughts affect their emotions and behaviors.

2. **Develop Adaptive Behaviors and Coping Skills**: Cognitive therapy aims to help individuals develop better coping strategies and problem-solving skills. This involves learning to challenge and neutralize unhelpful thoughts and beliefs, and replacing them with more balanced and effective ways of thinking. As a result, individuals can respond to challenging situations with behaviors that are more adaptive and less likely to exacerbate their psychological distress.

3. **Improve Emotional Regulation**: The third goal of cognitive therapy is to teach individuals how to better regulate their emotions. This involves understanding the link between cognition, emotion, and behavior, and learning how to manage and reduce negative emotional responses. By improving emotional regulation, individuals can experience a reduction in symptoms and an improvement in overall mental health.

In summary, cognitive therapy focuses on helping individuals change unhelpful thinking patterns, develop more effective behavioral responses, and regulate emotions more effectively, leading to improved mental health and well-being.

Question 3

Individuals tend to pay much more attention to information that supports their beliefs than that which refutes them.This is called the

Accepted Answer

A)  confirmation bias. 
B)  attributional bias. 
C)  explicit belief schema. 
D)  tendency to catastrophize. 
A)  confirmation bias. 
B)  attributional bias. 
C)  explicit belief schema. 
D)  tendency to catastrophize. B

Question 4

When tasks are large, a therapist might break the task into smaller steps called graded task assignments.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 5

Marilyn has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.Which form of cognitive-behavior therapy is likely to be recommended for her?

Accepted Answer

A)  rational-emotive behavior therapy 
B)  dialectical behavior therapy 
C)  cognitive behavior therapy 
D)  social skills behavior therapy 
A)  rational-emotive behavior therapy 
B)  dialectical behavior therapy 
C)  cognitive behavior therapy 
D)  social skills behavior therapy

Question 6

Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.

Accepted Answer

Newer technologies have greatly facilita

Question 7

Beck believes that depression is caused by deeply ingrained internal conflicts that the client has not explored fully.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 8

When a therapist pursues a line of questioning until a client's beliefs are apparent and open to analysis, it is called

Accepted Answer

A)  collaborative empiricism. 
B)  Socratic questioning. 
C)  psychoeducation. 
D)  a therapeutic alliance. 
A)  collaborative empiricism. 
B)  Socratic questioning. 
C)  psychoeducation. 
D)  a therapeutic alliance.

Question 9

Behavior therapy is a highly regarded single method of psychotherapeutic treatment.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 10

Which of the following would NOT support the cognitive specificity hypothesis?

Accepted Answer

A)  Persons who share certain disorders seem inclined to employ similar cognitive distortions. 
B)  Persons with depression often have a negative attributional style. 
C)  Persons prone to depression often interpret negative events as occurring because of internal, global, and stable factors. 
D)  Normal and abnormal behaviors are triggered by cognitive interpretation of events, rather than by the events themselves. 
A)  Persons who share certain disorders seem inclined to employ similar cognitive distortions. 
B)  Persons with depression often have a negative attributional style. 
C)  Persons prone to depression often interpret negative events as occurring because of internal, global, and stable factors. 
D)  Normal and abnormal behaviors are triggered by cognitive interpretation of events, rather than by the events themselves.

Question 11

When two situations are similar enough that they generate the same response,

Accepted Answer

A)  stimulus generalization has occurred. 
B)  the person has not discriminated between the two situations. 
C)  both a and b 
D)  neither a nor b 
A)  stimulus generalization has occurred. 
B)  the person has not discriminated between the two situations. 
C)  both a and b 
D)  neither a nor b

Question 12

When therapists set up practice scenarios in which clients are assured of experiencing success they are using

Accepted Answer

A)  modeling. 
B)  aversion therapy. 
C)  behavioral activation. 
D)  response prevention. 
A)  modeling. 
B)  aversion therapy. 
C)  behavioral activation. 
D)  response prevention.

Question 13

Behavior therapies have broadened to include the development of a range of social skills, such as making conversation and engaging in interpersonal problem solving.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 14

Albert Ellis developed an influential pioneering cognitive therapy called

Accepted Answer

A)  systematic desensitization therapy. 
B)  rational-emotive behavior therapy. 
C)  behavioral activation therapy. 
D)  cognitive-behavioral therapy. 
A)  systematic desensitization therapy. 
B)  rational-emotive behavior therapy. 
C)  behavioral activation therapy. 
D)  cognitive-behavioral therapy.

Question 15

Both observational learning and vicarious conditioning support the understanding that

Accepted Answer

A)  behavior is developed through operant and classical conditioning. 
B)  reinforcement is more powerful than punishment in changing behavior. 
C)  behaviors can be learned by simply observing others. 
D)  structured learning is more persistent. 
A)  behavior is developed through operant and classical conditioning. 
B)  reinforcement is more powerful than punishment in changing behavior. 
C)  behaviors can be learned by simply observing others. 
D)  structured learning is more persistent.

Question 16

Which of the following would probably NOT be amenable to exposure treatments?

Accepted Answer

A)  agoraphobia and the panic attacks that precede it 
B)  obsessive-compulsive disorder 
C)  depression 
D)  binge craving in bulimia 
A)  agoraphobia and the panic attacks that precede it 
B)  obsessive-compulsive disorder 
C)  depression 
D)  binge craving in bulimia

Question 17

The reason cognitive-behavioral approaches to therapy continue to be popular in training programs is

Accepted Answer

A)  the techniques are straightforward and problem-oriented. 
B)  as a relatively "scripted" approach, it is easier for clinicians to learn than some other approaches. 
C)  there is solid data about the efficacy of this treatment approach for a variety of disorders. 
D)  all of the above 
A)  the techniques are straightforward and problem-oriented. 
B)  as a relatively "scripted" approach, it is easier for clinicians to learn than some other approaches. 
C)  there is solid data about the efficacy of this treatment approach for a variety of disorders. 
D)  all of the above

Question 18

In order to maintain a positive working alliance, cognitive therapists try to avoid direct education about the power of cognitive distortions.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 19

What are the advantages for behavioral and cognitive approaches of being well-grounded in the empirical tradition in clinical psychology?

Accepted Answer

The behavioral and cognitive approaches

Question 20

Cognitions are important because they mediate between the id and the ego.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

What a psychodynamic therapist might call , a cognitive therapist would call __.

What are the three main goals of cognitive therapy?

Individuals tend to pay much more attention to information that supports their beliefs than that which refutes them.This is called the

When tasks are large, a therapist might break the task into smaller steps called graded task assignments.

Marilyn has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.Which form of cognitive-behavior therapy is likely to be recommended for her?

Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.

Beck believes that depression is caused by deeply ingrained internal conflicts that the client has not explored fully.

When a therapist pursues a line of questioning until a client's beliefs are apparent and open to analysis, it is called

Behavior therapy is a highly regarded single method of psychotherapeutic treatment.

Which of the following would NOT support the cognitive specificity hypothesis?

When two situations are similar enough that they generate the same response,

When therapists set up practice scenarios in which clients are assured of experiencing success they are using

Behavior therapies have broadened to include the development of a range of social skills, such as making conversation and engaging in interpersonal problem solving.

Albert Ellis developed an influential pioneering cognitive therapy called

Both observational learning and vicarious conditioning support the understanding that

Which of the following would probably NOT be amenable to exposure treatments?

The reason cognitive-behavioral approaches to therapy continue to be popular in training programs is

In order to maintain a positive working alliance, cognitive therapists try to avoid direct education about the power of cognitive distortions.

What are the advantages for behavioral and cognitive approaches of being well-grounded in the empirical tradition in clinical psychology?

Cognitions are important because they mediate between the id and the ego.

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What a psychodynamic therapist might call __________________, a cognitive therapist would call ____________________.

What are the three main goals of cognitive therapy?

Individuals tend to pay much more attention to information that supports their beliefs than that which refutes them.This is called the

When tasks are large, a therapist might break the task into smaller steps called graded task assignments.

Marilyn has been diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.Which form of cognitive-behavior therapy is likely to be recommended for her?

Describe some ways that newer technologies facilitate behavioral therapies.

Beck believes that depression is caused by deeply ingrained internal conflicts that the client has not explored fully.

When a therapist pursues a line of questioning until a client's beliefs are apparent and open to analysis, it is called

Behavior therapy is a highly regarded single method of psychotherapeutic treatment.

Which of the following would NOT support the cognitive specificity hypothesis?

When two situations are similar enough that they generate the same response,

When therapists set up practice scenarios in which clients are assured of experiencing success they are using

Behavior therapies have broadened to include the development of a range of social skills, such as making conversation and engaging in interpersonal problem solving.

Albert Ellis developed an influential pioneering cognitive therapy called

Both observational learning and vicarious conditioning support the understanding that

Which of the following would probably NOT be amenable to exposure treatments?

The reason cognitive-behavioral approaches to therapy continue to be popular in training programs is

In order to maintain a positive working alliance, cognitive therapists try to avoid direct education about the power of cognitive distortions.

What are the advantages for behavioral and cognitive approaches of being well-grounded in the empirical tradition in clinical psychology?

Cognitions are important because they mediate between the id and the ego.

What Is Clinical Psychology

Clinical Psychologys Past and Present

Basic Features of Clinical Assessment

Interviewing and Observation in Clinical Psychology

Testing in Clinical Psychology

Basic Features of Clinical Interventions

Psychodynamic and Humanistic Psychotherapies

Alternative Modes of Clinical Intervention

Research on Clinical Intervention

Clinical Child Psychology

Health Psychology

Clinical Neuopsychology

Forensic Psychology

Professional Issues in Clinical Psychology

Getting Into Graduate School in Clinical Psychology

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What a psychodynamic therapist might call , a cognitive therapist would call __.