Question 1

Electroconfulsive therapy is mainly effective in treating

Accepted Answer

A)  depression.
B)  schizophrenia.
C)  anxiety disorders.
D)  all of the above. A

Question 2

Lithium is a naturally occurring

Accepted Answer

A)  drug.
B)  enzyme.
C)  salt.
D)  plant. C

Question 3

Insight therapies include all but which one of the following?

Accepted Answer

A)  psychoanalysis
B)  humanistic therapy
C)  behaviour modification
D)  Gestalt therapies C

Question 4

A procedure which severs the connections from parts of the brain that control emotions is

Accepted Answer

A)  limbic curettage.
B)  trephining.
C)  ECT.
D)  prefrontal lobotomy.

Question 5

A young boy has been told by his dentist to stop eating candy because the sugar is ruining his teeth.The boy still cannot help himself.Whenever he finds candy in his house,he quickly devours everything.To help stop the boy from eating the candy,his mother allows him to "find" several candy pieces that she has dipped in hot chili sauce.Which type of treatment approach is the mother using?

Accepted Answer

A)  aversion therapy
B)  implosion therapy
C)  client-centred therapy
D)  systematic desensitization

Question 6

Lily is seeing Dr.Smythe to deal with her dependency issues,which stem from when her father abandoned her as a child.During one of the therapy sessions,Dr.Smythe tells Lilythat he will have to cancel next week's appointment because he is going on vacation.Lily feels resentful,jealous,and angry towardDr.Smythe,and screams at him for not being there for her when she needs him.Which term best describes Lily's behaviour?

Accepted Answer

A)  transference
B)  countertransference
C)  resistance
D)  reactive

Question 7

A technique which assumes it is impossible to be relaxed and anxious at the same time is

Accepted Answer

A)  systematic desensitization.
B)  overgeneralization.
C)  conditioning. In

Question 8

Which treatment is MOST likely to be used today?

Accepted Answer

A)  drug therapy
B)  prefrontal lobotomy
C)  ECT
D)  in vitro therapy

Question 9

Which of the following,according to Rogers,is MOST likely to become a fully functioning person?

Accepted Answer

A)  someone with a strongly developed superego
B)  someone with an extroverted personality
C)  someone brought up with conditional positive regard
D)  someone brought up with unconditional positive regard

Question 10

What type of therapy provides outcomes that are easily measured and verified?

Accepted Answer

A)  psychodynamic
B)  behavioural
C)  experiential
D)  humanistic

Question 11

Which method of treating phobias involves progressive relaxation and exposure to the feared object (either actual or imagined)?

Accepted Answer

A)  extinction
B)  systematic desensitization
C)  punishment
D)  token economy

Question 12

A therapist believes that Chet is chronically depressed because he takes too little credit for his many achievements and assumes too much responsibility for his few failures.The therapist's interpretation reflects a ________ perspective.

Accepted Answer

A)  psychoanalytic
B)  social-cognitive
C)  trait
D)  humanistic

Question 13

_______ therapy assumes that problem behaviours are learned and,as such,can be unlearned.

Accepted Answer

A)  Behaviour
B)  Group
C)  Gestalt
D)  Person-centered

Question 14

Tardive dyskinesia is a side effect of

Accepted Answer

A)  barbiturate use
B)  psychosurgery
C)  ECT
D)  antipsychotic drugs

Question 15

Sally's therapist wants her to bring her parents and siblings to counseling sessions with her.Sally is going through

Accepted Answer

A)  social skills training.
B)  family therapy.
C)  assertiveness training.
D)  client-centered therapy.

Question 16

A student finds himself hating a professor because the latter reminds him of his abusive father.In psychoanalytic terms,the student is exhibiting

Accepted Answer

A)  abreaction.
B)  transference.
C)  resistance.
D)  cathexis.

Question 17

When problems exist between parents and children,their problems are usually BEST handled by

Accepted Answer

A)  psychoanalysis.
B)  family therapy.
C)  operant conditioning.
D)  individual therapy.

Question 18

Unconditional positive regard is most important to

Accepted Answer

A)  Freud.
B)  Jung.
C)  Maslow.
D)  Rogers.

Question 19

Maureen is in therapy because she is very frightened of her father and feels tongue-tied around him.After a few months she begins to feel frightened of her therapist also.According to Freud,this is an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  latency.
B)  interpretation.
C)  transference.
D)  sublimination.

Question 20

Cognitive models of therapy tend to focus on

Accepted Answer

A)  corrective emotional experiences.
B)  changing thinking processes.
C)  removing symptoms.
D)  fulfilling one's potential.

Exam 16: D: Therapies