Exam 2: Current Paradigms and Integrative Approaches

The earliest experimental work on classical conditioning in dogs was conducted by:

Behaviour therapy and behaviour modification are the same thing.

Who originated the field of psychotherapy research?

Often individuals who have been victims of sexual abuse disavow their traumatic experience and push it into their unconscious. This defence mechanism is referred to as:

Neurotransmitters

While studying for an exam, Paul worked for 15 minutes before becoming tired. He decided that it would be better to work for another 30 minutes before taking a break. His behaviour is being guided by which part of his mind?

As part of treatment for a fetish, Ted is instructed to masturbate for an extended period before ejaculation while fantasizing about sexual activity aside from the fetish object. The goal of treatment was to ultimately pair arousal with a different stimulus than the fetish object. This is an illustration of what behavioural technique?

Very strict parents might create a very strong _______________ in their children.

Martha was trained in relaxation methods, and then practiced imagining feared situations while relaxed. This illustrates:

The term psychotherapy only applies to psychoanalytic therapy.

Linkage analysis is a method in molecular genetics used to:

What is referred to by the '100-year experiment' conducted by the Canadian government?

In research on the treatment of depression, Harkness and her colleagues found that the link between stress and depression was weakened if women received:

The basic energy source for the psyche is the:

Planning and decision making is carried out by the:

According to the biopsychosocial model, one of the most powerful risk factors for psychological disorders is:

Rational-emotive behaviour therapy primarily focuses on

Rogers believed that conditions of worth were important for psychological wellbeing.

According to the biological paradigm:

The diathesis-stress and biopsychosocial models are more or less the same thing.