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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. People who lack congruence between real selves and conscious self-concept develops psychological tension; incongruence occurs when feelings or experiences are inconsistent with acknowledged of self (e.g. perfect self-concept shaken by any failure)
Role playing
object-relations theory
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Psychodynamic theory
2. Encourage people to stand apart from beliefs - biases and attitudes derived from the past - goal is to fully experience and perceive the present in order to become a while and integrated person
Gestalt Theory
Donald Meichenbaum
Carl Gustav Jung
analytical theory
3. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Will to meaning
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Hierarchy of needs
4. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
id
avoiding type
Psychodynamic theory
ruling-dominant type
5. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka
socially useful type
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Gestalt Theory (originators)
aggression
6. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory
Defense mechanism (+types)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Cognitive triad
7. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious
process of becoming
criticism (individual theory)
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
8. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Empathy
transference
9. Use of medication to treat mental illness - do not cure but some are effective at alleviating symptoms; often used with therapy
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Cognitive triad
Psychopharmacology
analytical theory
10. Talking therapy - deep questions relating to perception and meaning of existence
therapy (existential theory)
Screen memory
Personalizing
Free association
11. Delivers electric current to brain to induce convulsions; effective for severely depressed patients
hypnosis
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Abraham Maslow
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
12. When the therapist uses the patient'S transference to help him/her resolve problems that were the result of previous relationship by correcting the emotional experience in the therapist-patient relationship
Monoamines (examples)
object relations therapy
Dreams
Persona
13. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
eros
Personalizing
criticism (Behavior theory)
Shaping
14. The part of mind that imposes learned or socialized drives - not something one is born with - but develops over time - influenced by moral and parental training
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Hierarchy of needs
superego
Shadow
15. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Alfred Adler
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
16. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Karen Horney
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Projection
Third Force
17. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
Family therapy
Role playing
Reaction formation
Anna Freud
18. Freud; pathological behaviour - dreams - unconscious behaviour (e.g. hysterical or neurotic women) are symptoms of underlying - unresolved conflict - which are manifested when the ego does not find acceptable ways to express conflict
Donald Meichenbaum
Topographic model of mental life
psychic determinism
goal of therapy (existential theory)
19. Melancholic - low in activity and low in social contribution - withdrawn
Cognitive Theory (originator)
avoiding type
Antimanics
Psychopharmacology
20. Individual theory
Reaction formation
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Alfred Adler
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
21. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
Melanie Klein
psychoanalysis
Shadow
Psychopharmacology
22. Pioneered object-relations theory and psychoanalysis with children
process of becoming
Hans Eysenck
Melanie Klein
Personalizing
23. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
Screen memory
Assertiveness training
Undoing
Modeling
24. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Will to meaning
Anna Freud
Abraham Maslow
Empathy
25. Material from individual'S own experiences - can become conscious
getting-learning type
Rationalization
Personal unconscious
libido
26. Person'S outer mask - mediator to external world; masks in cultures
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
getting-learning type
Personal unconscious
Persona
27. Used to reduce anxiety or to induce sleep; increases effectiveness of GABA (inhibitory); high potential for causing habituation and addiction; Ex. barbiturates and benzodiazepines such as diazepam (Valium®) and alprazolam (Xanax®)
Anxiolytics
libido
Reality principle
Self
28. Too mystical or spiritual
Dichotomous thinking
catharsis/abreaction
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
criticism (analytical theory)
29. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
Self
Antimanics
criticism (individual theory)
neobehaviouralism
30. Alfred Adler - Adlerian theory - people are viewed as creative - social and whole as opposed to Freud'S more negative and structural approach - process of becoming - Healthy individuals: --> peruse goals in spite of feelings of interiority - --> has
Collective unconscious
Dichotomous thinking
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
individual theory
31. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
Applied psychology
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Arbitrary inference
getting-learning type
32. Sexual force
libido
psychic determinism
ego
process of becoming
33. General term that refers to theories that emphasize the positive - evolving free will in people (such as client-centered - Gestalt - or existential); optimistic about human nature; 'Third Force'
Cognitive Theory
Free association
Humanistic theory
Compensation
34. Treats family as a whole as client
Identification
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
analytical theory
Family therapy
35. Lessen the unconscious pressures on the individual by making as much of it conscious as possible - allow the ego to be a better mediator of forces
Play therapy
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Rational-Emotive Theory
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
36. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Dreams
Overgeneralization
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (individual theory)
37. Reduces depressive symptoms - by taking opposite action of antimanics; depression appears to be from abnormally low levels of monoamines; increase production and transmission of various monoamines; - Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) - Monoamine oxid
psychic determinism
Antidepressants (+types)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Anna Freud
38. Treatment for mental health problems shown to produce results in empirical studies; many argue only this is ethical; others argue controlled experiments not like real treatments - less useful and applicable
Evidence-based treatment
Carl Gustav Jung
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
39. The life instinct - including sex and love
Donald Meichenbaum
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
eros
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
40. Directed therapy helps expose and restructure maladaptive thought and reasoning patterns - generally short-term - therapist focuses on tangible evidence of client'S logic (what client says and does)
Behavior theory
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Modeling
41. Phlegmatic - low in activity and high in social contribution - dependent
Arbitrary inference
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
getting-learning type
radical behavioralism
42. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Repression or denial
Arbitrary inference
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Shadow
43. Initially: an individual'S greatest conflict was that between the libido and the ego - Then: the true conflict is that between Eros and Thanatos ('The aim of all life is death')
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44. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
socially useful type
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
ego
Topographic model of mental life
45. Drawing conclusion without solid evidence (e.g. 'Boss hates me because he never asks me to play golf')
Pleasure principle
Arbitrary inference
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Shadow
46. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
Dichotomous thinking
Overgeneralization
Personal unconscious
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
47. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
Antidepressants (+types)
Arbitrary inference
Repression or denial
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
48. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
catharsis/abreaction
therapy (existential theory)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
process of becoming
49. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
avoiding type
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Cognitive triad
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
50. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
Flooding or implosive therapy
object-relations theory
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Personal unconscious