A 1. therapist who uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic methods is said to be using a(n) ______________ approach.
A. B. C. D.
humanistic client-centered eclectic meta-analytic
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 2. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are likely to be treated with ________________ therapy which acts directly on the patient's nervous system.
A. B. C. D.
biomedical eclectic humanistic psycho
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 4. Systematic desensitization is a form of:
A. B.
electroconvulsive therapy. stress inoculation
C. D.
training. aversive conditioning. exposure therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 5. A therapist helps Rebecca overcome her fear of water by getting her to swim in the family's backyard pool three times a day for two consecutive weeks. The therapist's approach to helping Rebecca best illustrates:
A. B. C. D.
aversive conditioning. exposure therapy. stress inoculation training. EMDR.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 6. During her weekly therapy sessions, Sabrina will often abruptly shift the focus of her attention and lose her train of thought. A psychoanalyst would suggest that this illustrates:
A. B. C. D.
meta-analysis. resistance. transference. regression toward the mean.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1
Your Response: B 7. Good therapies share much in common, including:
A. B. C. D.
a professional, slightly removed relationship with the therapist. the length of the therapeutic relationship. the goal of insight into unconscious conflict. hope for demoralized people.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 8. Zander has been struggling with personal issues and has decided to seek help at a mental health clinic. Unfortunately, he was put on a waiting list and told he would likely have to wait several weeks before he could meet with a therapist. According to Eysenck's findings, what do you predict will happen to Zander?
A. B. C. D.
Chances are very good that he will take his name off the waiting list. Chances are very good that he will decline rapidly. Chances are not good that he will improve during this waiting period. Chances are good that he will improve during this waiting period.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 9.
The American Psychological Association suggests that which of the following is a signal that a person should consider seeking help from a professional?
A. B. C. D.
A person should consider therapy if he/she experiences any of these trouble signals. disruptive fears feelings of hopelessness sexual difficulties
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 10. Tardive dyskinesia is associated with the long-term use of which type of drugs?
A. B. C. D.
mood-stabilizing antipsychotic antidepressant antianxiety
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 11. After three days of taking a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), Dennis is disappointed because he is not feeling any better. However, it generally may take up to ________ for this type of antidepressant to reach full effect.
A. B. C. D.
4 weeks 3 weeks 1 week 2 weeks
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 12. Sharon was admitted to the hospital with severe depression. She nearly succeeded in killing herself, but her husband came home from work early. The only type of treatment that can bring her out of depression quickly and potentially save her life is:
A. B. C. D.
electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). electrocardiogram (EKG).
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 1. The introduction of therapeutic drugs and community-based treatment programs in the ___________ helped to empty large mental hospitals as well as mark an era of improved treatments.
A. B. C. D.
1960s 1970s 1940s 1950s
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 2.
A therapist who uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic methods is said to be using a(n) ______________ approach.
A. B. C. D.
meta-analytic eclectic humanistic client-centered
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 3. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are likely to be treated with ________________ therapy which acts directly on the patient's nervous system.
A. B. C. D.
humanistic biomedical psycho eclectic
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 4. Nadine has decided to seek help for some problems she is having. She knows a little about different therapies and has decided she doesn't want to get involved in anything long-term. However, she does want to gain insight into the roots of her difficulties. If Nadine wants to gain insight into current issues, rather than delve into the past, she should try to find a therapist who specializes in:
A. B. C. D.
systematic desensitization. token economy. interpersonal psychotherapy. psychoanalysis.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: A 5. When a patient in psychoanalysis blocks anxiety-laden material from their consciousness they are experiencing:
A. B. C. D.
resistance. blocking. counter-transference. transference.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 6. In an eating disorders clinic, the patients receive merits for good eating behaviors such as finishing their meal, not exercising after their meal, and for appropriate behaviors on the unit. This best illustrates an application of:
A. B. C. D.
systematic desensitization. virtual reality exposure therapy. stress inoculation training. the token economy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 7.
Dr. Salazar is conducting his last therapy session with Delores, a client he has been seeing for two years. If you were to ask Dr. Salazar about the effectiveness of the therapy, he would likely report that:
A. B.
C. D.
it was effective, although he doesn't admit it could have been the placebo effect. it was effective, although he cannot know if she was dissatisfied with his therapy and is seeking help elsewhere. it was effective, although he doesn't admit it could have been the result of regression toward the mean. Though Dr. Salazar might report his therapy was effective, any of this contrary evidence could be true.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 8. It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy because:
A. B. C. D.
people often enter therapy in crisis, and these crises often pass without professional help. clients transfer their problems onto their therapists, but the problem still exists. clients never speak kindly about their therapists. clients have no need to believe or promote that the therapy was effective.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 9. For the last three months, Selma has been seeing her therapist weekly. She is feeling much better because:
A. B. C. D.
All of these things are true of effective therapy. she has more hope. her therapist is empathic and she feels he cares about her. she has been given a new perspective.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 10. The full psychological effect of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) is roughly:
A. B. C. D.
3 weeks. 1 week. 4 weeks. 2 weeks.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 11. One who considers the greatest range of factors that may contribute to the healing process is most clearly taking a _____________approach to therapy.
A. B. C. D.
a. biomedical client-centered biopsychosocial psychodynamic
Correct Points Earned:
1/1 Your Response: C 12. Which of the following drugs is most likely to provide schizophrenia patients with some relief from their auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
A. B. C. D.
lithium Prozac Xanax Thorazine
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 4. You recognize that depressed people do not exhibit the same self-serving bias common in non-depressed people. You are most likely a:
A. B. C. D.
psychodynamic therapist. cognitive therapist. behavior therapist client-centered therapist.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 5. Systematic desensitization is a form of:
A. B. C. D.
stress inoculation training. exposure therapy. electroconvulsive therapy. aversive conditioning.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 6. Interpersonal psychotherapy is a variation on psychodynamic therapy. It is different because:
A. B. C. D.
it is aimed at total personality change. its goal is symptom relief in the here and now, and it focuses primarily on current relationships. the number of sessions needed for effective treatment cannot be determined. the therapist focuses primarily on past relationships and undoing past hurts.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 7. The most effective psychotherapists are those who:
A. B. C. D.
establish an empathic, caring relationship with their clients. have had many years of experience practicing psychotherapy. employ personality tests to accurately diagnose their clients' difficulties. discourage clients from using antianxiety or antidepressant drugs.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 8. Delores has been in therapy for two years, but her last session is today. If you ask her next month how effective her psychotherapy was, she is likely to:
A. B. C. D.
overestimate its effectiveness. not think it was worth the effort. underestimate its effectiveness. underestimate the help her therapist gave her.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: D 9. The American Psychological Association suggests that which of the following is a signal that a person should consider seeking help from a professional?
A. B. C. D.
feelings of hopelessness disruptive fears sexual difficulties A person should consider therapy if he/she experiences any of these trouble signals.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 10.
Antipsychotic drugs are to __________ as a cork is to a:
A. B. C. D.
dopamine receptors; bottle opener. serotonin receptors; bottle opener. dopamine receptors; bottle. tardive dyskinesia; bottle.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 11. Patients receive a general anesthetic and muscle relaxant prior to treatment with:
A. B. C. D.
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR). electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS).
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 12. Sharon was admitted to the hospital with severe depression. She nearly succeeded in killing herself, but her husband came home from work early. The only type of treatment that can bring her out of depression quickly and potentially save her life is:
A. B. C. D.
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS). selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI). electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). electrocardiogram (EKG).
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 1. A therapist who uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic methods is said to be using a(n) ______________ approach.
A. B. C. D.
meta-analytic humanistic eclectic client-centered
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 2. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are likely to be treated with ________________ therapy which acts directly on the patient's nervous system.
A. B. C. D.
humanistic eclectic psycho biomedical
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 3.
The introduction of therapeutic drugs and community-based treatment programs in the ___________ helped to empty large mental hospitals as well as mark an era of improved treatments.
A. B. C. D.
1960s 1950s 1940s 1970s
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 4. Classical psychoanalysts are especially interested in:
A. B. C. D.
discouraging clients from using antianxiety or antidepressant drugs. minimizing the possibility that clients would experience anxiety during therapy. interpreting the meaning of clients' resistance to therapeutic procedures. encouraging clients by exhibiting genuineness and acceptance.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 5. In a residential treatment facility for troubled youth, adolescent children receive large colored buttons when they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The children return the buttons to staff members to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of:
A. B.
systematic desensitization. operant conditioning.
C. D.
stress inoculation training. virtual reality exposure therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 6. Interpersonal psychotherapy is a variation on psychodynamic therapy. It is different because:
A. B. C. D.
the therapist focuses primarily on past relationships and undoing past hurts. it is aimed at total personality change. the number of sessions needed for effective treatment cannot be determined. its goal is symptom relief in the here and now, and it focuses primarily on current relationships.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 7. It is difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of psychotherapy because:
A. B. C. D.
people often enter therapy in crisis, and these crises often pass without professional help. clients have no need to believe or promote that the therapy was effective. clients transfer their problems onto their therapists, but the problem still exists. clients never speak kindly about their therapists.
Correct
Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 8. For the last three months, Selma has been seeing her therapist weekly. She is feeling much better because:
A. B. C. D.
she has more hope. she has been given a new perspective. her therapist is empathic and she feels he cares about her. All of these things are true of effective therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 9. Good therapies share much in common, including:
A. B. C. D.
a professional, slightly removed relationship with the therapist. the goal of insight into unconscious conflict. the length of the therapeutic relationship. hope for demoralized people.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 10.
Which of the following drugs is most likely to provide schizophrenia patients with some relief from their auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
A. B. C. D.
lithium Xanax Thorazine Prozac
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 11. A patient recently admitted to the hospital is complaining of auditory hallucinations. She might be treated with:
A. B. C. D.
Prozac. lithium. Xanax. Thorazine.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 12. Of the following individuals, who is most likely to benefit from use of lithium?
A. B.
C.
Landon, who experiences a generalized sense of apprehension and anxiety Miranda, who experiences periods of extreme sadness, followed by episodes of optimistic overexcitement Olivia, who experiences delusions and auditory hallucinations
D.
Ivan, who experiences sudden brief episodes of intense dread and panic
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 1. A therapist who uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic methods is said to be using a(n) ______________ approach.
A. B. C. D.
eclectic meta-analytic humanistic client-centered
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 2. The introduction of therapeutic drugs and community-based treatment programs in the ___________ helped to empty large mental hospitals as well as mark an era of improved treatments.
A. B. C. D.
1960s 1950s 1970s 1940s
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response:
B 3. Schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are likely to be treated with ________________ therapy which acts directly on the patient's nervous system.
A. B. C. D.
eclectic psycho biomedical humanistic
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 4. ____________ is a behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to a stimuli that originally triggered an unwanted behavior.
A. B. C. D.
Aversive conditioning Exposure therapy Counterconditioning All of these procedures are used in behavior therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 5. Beck's therapy, which teaches people new and more adaptive ways of thinking and acting and is based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions, is called:
A.
cognitive therapy.
B. C. D.
humanistic therapy. trait therapy. psychoanalysis.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 6. At his weekly therapy session, Henry became agitated at his therapist, saying that she was controlling, domineering, and trying to ruin his life with all of her mothering. A psychoanalyst would suggest that this illustrates:
A. B. C. D.
transference. meta-analysis. regression toward the mean. resistance.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 7. The American Psychological Association suggests that which of the following is a signal that a person should consider seeking help from a professional?
A. B. C. D.
feelings of hopelessness disruptive fears A person should consider therapy if he/she experiences any of these trouble signals. sexual difficulties
Correct
Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 8. Delores has been in therapy for two years, but her last session is today. If you ask her next month how effective her psychotherapy was, she is likely to:
A. B. C. D.
underestimate its effectiveness. not think it was worth the effort. underestimate the help her therapist gave her. overestimate its effectiveness.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: A 9. Dr. Salazar is conducting his last therapy session with Delores, a client he has been seeing for two years. If you were to ask Dr. Salazar about the effectiveness of the therapy, he would likely report that:
A. B. C. D.
it was effective, although he doesn't admit it could have been the placebo effect. Though Dr. Salazar might report his therapy was effective, any of this contrary evidence could be true. it was effective, although he doesn't admit it could have been the result of regression toward the mean. it was effective, although he cannot know if she was dissatisfied with his therapy and is seeking help elsewhere.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 10.
In a study using _______________, half of the patients receive a drug and the other half receives a similarappearing placebo. Neither the patients in the study or the staff administering the treatment know who gets which treatment.
A. B. C. D.
a double-blind technique repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) an aversive psychotherapy procedure a counterconditioning technique
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 11. Which of the following drugs sometimes helps people with positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
A. B. C. D.
Xanax lithium Clozaril Thorazine
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: D 12. A patient at a mental health clinic is suffering from involuntary movements of his facial muscles and tongue. It is possible this _____________ is a side effect of his long-term use of antipsychotic medication.
A. B. C. D.
tardive dyskinesia dystonic reaction transcranial affect dysthymia
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 4. Nancy's is therapist an active listener who often paraphrases what she says. He does not judge her and is quite open to her exploration of her weaknesses. He gives her appropriate validation and encourages her to reflect on her feelings. He wants to deepen her self-understanding. Her therapy is most likely:
A. B. C. D.
interpersonal psychotherapy. client-centered. psychoanalysis. cognitive.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 6. During a therapy session, Jenny focuses on several intrusive thoughts that have been bothering her. The therapist tells Jenny to report any ideas or memories stimulated by these thoughts. Jenny's therapist is using a technique known as:
A. B. C. D.
free association. systematic desensitization. transference. active listening.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A
11. The double-blind technique is most likely to be used in evaluating the effectiveness of:
A. B. C. D.
behavior therapies. cognitive therapies. humanistic therapies. drug therapies.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 1. O. H. Mowrer trained children to stop bed-wetting by arranging for an alarm to sound each time they wet their beds. This technique best illustrates a therapeutic application of
A. B. C. D.
classical conditioning. the placebo effect. systematic desensitization. cognitive-behavior therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 2. Jenna is afraid of speaking to a large audience. Her therapist suggests that before giving a speech she should reassure herself with comments like, Cheer up, Jenna. You know what you're talking about and your topic is really interesting! This approach to reducing Jenna's fear most clearly illustrates
A. B. C.
client-centered therapy. systematic desensitization. aversive conditioning.
D.
cognitive therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 3. Interpersonal therapy focuses on helping people to
A. B. C. D.
stop blaming themselves for their failures. associate relaxation with stressful situations. understand the origins of their conflicts. improve their relationship skills.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 4. Although Ethan is actually doing very well in college, he feels depressed and academically incompetent. His therapist has instructed him to explain in writing how his good grades resulted from his own hard work and personal abilities. This therapeutic procedure is most characteristic of ________ therapy.
A. B. C. D.
psychoanalytic humanistic cognitive behavior
Correct Points Earned:
1/1 Your Response: C 5. Psychoanalysts would suggest that resistance during therapy defends the process of
A. B. C. D.
spontaneous recovery. repression. dream interpretation. free association.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 6. The biomedical treatment most widely used today is
A. B. C. D.
drug therapy. psychosurgery. electroconvulsive therapy. rTMS.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 7. Helping patients gain awareness of feelings they seem to be avoiding is a major goal of both psychoanalysis and
A.
systematic desensitization.
B. C. D.
rTMS. a token economy. psychodynamic therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 8. Teaching people to stop blaming themselves for failures and negative events beyond their control is of most direct concern to ________ therapists.
A. B. C. D.
behavior psychoanalytic client-centered cognitive
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 9. A brief variation of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression is known as
A. B. C. D.
rTMS. systematic desensitization. interpersonal psychotherapy. spontaneous recovery.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response:
C 10. Gretchen is so afraid of germs that she compulsively avoids shaking people's hands or touching doorknobs. Research suggests that the best treatment for her problem would involve
A. B. C. D.
behavior therapy. cognitive therapy. client-centered therapy. psychodynamic therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 11. Which drug has provided the most help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paranoia?
A. B. C. D.
Thorazine Xanax lithium Prozac
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 12. Antidepressant drugs have been found to be less effective than originally thought in large part because patient improvement often results from spontaneous recovery or
A.
the placebo effect.
B. C. D.
free association. the double-blind technique. rTMS.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 13. A useful feature of group therapy is that it
A. B. C. D.
eliminates the possibility that clients will experience anxiety during therapy. enables people to receive feedback as they try out new ways of behaving. helps severely disturbed individuals to quickly regain normal social functioning. ensures that therapists will become more emotionally involved in clients' real-life problems.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 14. Clients with a collectivist perspective would most likely experience difficulty as clients of psychotherapists who emphasized the value of
A. B. C. D.
forgiveness. individualism. marital fidelity. humility.
Incorrect
Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: A 15. Sigmund Freud introduced a form of psychotherapy known as
A. B. C. D.
cognitive therapy. psychoanalysis. counterconditioning. active listening.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 16. To help an adult client overcome fears of venturing out of his own home, Dr. Ricci plans to use behavior therapy in combination with drug therapy. Which of the following drugs would Dr. Ricci be most likely to prescribe?
A. B. C. D.
Ativan lithium Thorazine Clozaril
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: B 17. Mr. Vogt is terribly fearful of being alone in his own house at night. To reduce this fear, a behavior therapist would most likely use
A. B. C. D.
a token economy. systematic desensitization. aversive conditioning. the double-blind technique.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: C 18. Which psychosurgical procedure was designed to calm uncontrollably emotional and violent patients?
A. B. C. D.
electroconvulsive therapy the double-blind technique systematic desensitization lobotomy
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 19. Which of the following techniques is derived from classical conditioning principles?
A. B. C. D.
systematic desensitization unconditional positive regard ECT the token economy
Correct Points Earned: 1/1
Your Response: A 20. A psychodynamic therapist is most likely to
A. B. C. D.
suggest interpretive insights regarding patients' difficulties. recommend the use of antipsychotic drugs during the process of psychotherapy. help patients identify a hierarchy of anxietyarousing situations. encourage depressed patients to take more responsibility for their failures.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 1. Psychoanalytic techniques are designed primarily to help patients
A. B. C. D.
develop greater self-esteem. focus on their immediate conscious feelings. feel more trusting toward others. become aware of their repressed conflicts and impulses.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 2. Which of the following procedures has typically resulted in patients becoming permanently listless?
A. B. C. D.
repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation virtual reality exposure therapy electroconvulsive therapy a lobotomy
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 3. To help an adult client overcome fears of venturing out of his own home, Dr. Ricci plans to use behavior therapy in combination with drug therapy. Which of the following drugs would Dr. Ricci be most likely to prescribe?
A. B. C. D.
Thorazine Clozaril lithium Ativan
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: C 4. There are common patterns of resentment and emotional detachment that have characterized Nate's past relationships with his mother, his former wife, and his previous employer. Helping Nate gain insight into these recurring relationship patterns would be of greatest concern to a
A. B. C. D.
psychodynamic therapist. biomedical therapist. humanistic therapist. behavior therapist.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 5. Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil are called SSRIs because they
A. B. C. D.
stimulate the release of norepinephrine into the bloodstream. speed recovery from episodes of depression. slow the normal reabsorption of excess serotonin from synapses. successfully level the emotional highs and lows of bipolar disorder.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: A 6. Preventive mental health is based on the view that psychological disorders result from
A. B. C. D.
repressed impulses and conflicts. transference. abnormal personality traits. stressful social situations.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: B 7.
Long-term use of certain antipsychotic drugs can produce involuntary movements of the facial muscles, tongue, and limbs. This condition is known as
A. B. C. D.
long-term potentiation. serotonin reuptake inhibition. Parkinson's disease. tardive dyskinesia.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 8. To a psychoanalyst, a patient's hesitation to free associate is most likely a sign of
A. B. C. D.
spontaneous recovery. resistance. transference. the placebo effect.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 9. A trained therapist who uses psychological techniques to help a person to overcome excessive anxiety would generally be best described as a
A. B. C. D.
biomedical therapist. psychoanalyst. psychiatrist. psychotherapist.
Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response:
10. In one study, people were taught to relabel their compulsive urges as abnormal brain activity. Instead of giving in to an urge, they would spend time in an alternative activity that engaged other parts of the brain. This strategy for dealing with their difficulty best illustrates
A. B. C. D.
rTMS. cognitive-behavior therapy. systematic desensitization. psychodynamic therapy.
Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response:
11. Which of the following biomedical treatments provides some of the benefits of ECT without triggering seizures or memory loss?
A. B. C. D.
the double-blind technique psychosurgery repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation systematic desensitization
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 12. Although Dr. Anderson uses systematic desensitization for the treatment of phobias, he prescribes antianxiety drugs as well. It is most likely that Dr. Anderson is a
A. B. C. D.
cognitive therapist. client-centered therapist. psychoanalyst. psychiatrist.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 13. Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client?
A. B. C. D.
cognitive therapy client-centered therapy behavior therapy psychoanalysis
Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response:
14. Mr. McCardle's feelings of helplessness and worthlessness alternate with episodes of great excitement and optimism about his future. Which drug would most likely be prescribed to level his emotional highs and lows?
A. B. C. D.
lithium Xanax Valium Thorazine
Correct
Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 15. The counterconditioning techniques developed by Mary Cover Jones were refined by
A. B. C. D.
Sigmund Freud. Egas Moniz. Carl Rogers. Joseph Wolpe.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 16. The repeated association of pleasant, relaxing states with stimuli that arouse fear is a central feature of
A. B. C. D.
rTMS. humanistic therapy. cognitive therapy. systematic desensitization.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 17. The best psychotherapy outcome studies are randomized clinical trials comparing treatment groups with ________ groups.
A. B. C. D.
virtual reality eclectic control token economy
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 18. Clients often stay in touch with their psychotherapists only if satisfied with the treatment they received. This helps us understand why therapists
A. B. C. D.
interpret patients' transference early in the course of therapy. prefer client-centered therapy over other forms of treatment. typically take an eclectic approach to therapy. tend to overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: B 19. Which form of therapy is most likely to be described as expensive and time-consuming?
A. B. C. D.
cognitive therapy systematic desensitization client-centered therapy psychoanalysis
Correct
Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 20. In an effort to reduce his daughter's fear of the dark, Mr. Chew would hug and gently rock her immediately after turning off the lights at bedtime. Mr. Chew's strategy best illustrates the technique of
A. B. C. D.
counterconditioning. deep stimulation. free association. spontaneous recovery.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 1. To treat nail biting, one can paint a patient's fingernails with a bitter-tasting nail polish. This procedure best illustrates
A. B. C. D.
systematic desensitization. tardive dyskinesia. deep stimulation. aversive conditioning.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 2. A useful feature of group therapy is that it
A. B. C. D.
enables people to receive feedback as they try out new ways of behaving. helps severely disturbed individuals to quickly regain normal social functioning. eliminates the possibility that clients will experience anxiety during therapy. ensures that therapists will become more emotionally involved in clients' real-life problems.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 3. Clients with a collectivist perspective would most likely experience difficulty as clients of psychotherapists who emphasized the value of
A. B. C. D.
forgiveness. humility. marital fidelity. individualism.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 4. Mrs. Laiti is a compulsive gambler. To reduce her attraction to this self-defeating activity, a behavior therapist would most likely use
A. B. C. D.
a token economy. aversive conditioning. systematic desensitization. rTMS.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 5. Whenever 2-year-old Calista runs into the street in front of her house, her mother immediately spanks her. The mother's technique most closely resembles the procedure known as
A. B. C. D.
rTMS. electroconvulsive therapy. systematic desensitization. aversive conditioning.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 6. What would be most helpful for encouraging institutionalized adults to make their beds every morning?
A. B. C. D.
a token economy cognitive therapy systematic desensitization aversive conditioning
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 7.
Psychoanalytic techniques are designed primarily to help patients
A. B. C. D.
become aware of their repressed conflicts and impulses. develop greater self-esteem. focus on their immediate conscious feelings. feel more trusting toward others.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 8. Which of the following therapists introduced the use of free association?
A. B. C. D.
Aaron Beck Carl Rogers Mary Carver Jones Sigmund Freud
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 9. Deep stimulation is a type of
A. B. C. D.
biomedical therapy. behavior therapy. humanistic therapy. psychodynamic therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 10. The most convincing evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy comes from
A. B. C. D.
statistical summaries of controlled research studies. the reactions of family and friends to those who had recently been through psychotherapy. therapists' reports that their clients improved. studies of client satisfaction with the treatment received.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: D 11. Just as Chinh began telling his therapist about a painful childhood experience, he complained of a headache and ended the session. A psychoanalyst would most likely suggest that Chinh's behavior is an example of
A. B. C. D.
resistance. tardive dyskinesia. transference. counterconditioning.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A
12. Which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from electroconvulsive therapy?
A. B.
C. D.
Luke, who suffers from a compulsion to wash his hands at least once every 15 minutes Jim, who experiences visual hallucinations and suffers from a delusion that enemy spies are following him Mary, who suffers from amnesia and has lost her sense of identity Mark, who feels so depressed that he recently tried to commit suicide
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 13. Many professionals outside the field of psychology are prepared to offer psychotherapy in the process of completing a graduate program in
A. B. C. D.
social work. philosophy. law. anthropology.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: A 14. O. H. Mowrer trained children to stop bed-wetting by arranging for an alarm to sound each time they wet their beds. This technique best illustrates a therapeutic application of
A. B. C. D.
the placebo effect. systematic desensitization. classical conditioning. cognitive-behavior therapy.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: C 15. Preventive mental health is based on the view that psychological disorders result from
A. B. C. D.
repressed impulses and conflicts. transference. abnormal personality traits. stressful social situations.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: A 16. Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms such as insomnia that occur when a person stops taking an antianxiety drug indicate
A. B. C. D.
physiological dependence. transference. systematic desensitization. tardive dyskinesia.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1
Your Response: A 17. As a psychotherapist, Dr. Buist does not analyze people's motives or diagnose the nature of their difficulties. This is because he believes they are in the best position to diagnose and solve their own problems. Dr. Buist's position is most characteristic of ________ therapy.
A. B. C. D.
operant conditioning client-centered cognitive psychoanalytic
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B 18. Schizophrenia is a disorder that is MOST likely to be treated with
A. B. C. D.
psychoanalysis. behavior therapies. cognitive therapies. biomedical therapies.
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: D 19. Persuading depressed patients to reverse their negativity about themselves, their situations, and their futures is most characteristic of
A. B. C. D.
Wolpe's exposure therapy. Freud's psychoanalysis. Roger's client-centered therapy. Beck's cognitive therapy.
Incorrect Points Earned: 0/1 Your Response: C 20. Cindy suggested that her nail biting might be a symptom of unconscious resentment toward her parents. Her therapist chuckled and said, No, Cindy, your problem isn't unconscious hostility; your problem is nail biting. Cindy's therapist sounds most like a ________ therapist.
A. B. C. D.
psychoanalytic behavior humanistic cognitive
Correct Points Earned: 1/1 Your Response: B