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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Abnormal behaviour is the result of learning and conditioning
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
analytical theory
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
ruling-dominant type
2. 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®)
criticism (individual theory)
Will to meaning
Role playing
Anxiolytics
3. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Rationalization
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
4. Treats family as a whole as client
Personalizing
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Family therapy
Genuineness/congruence
5. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
6. Talking therapy - deep questions relating to perception and meaning of existence
Client-centered theory
Identification
therapy (existential theory)
psychic determinism
7. Like cognitive and behaviour theory - considered too sterile and mechanistic
analytical theory
Repression or denial
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
criticism (analytical theory)
8. Victor Frankl
Topographic model of mental life
existential theory (originator)
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
9. People in the process of realizing themselves - The individual is motivated by social needs and feelings of inferiority that arise when the current self does not match the self-ideal
getting-learning type
process of becoming
Neo-Freudians
Free association
10. Stress-inoculation training
therapy (existential theory)
Rationalization
Donald Meichenbaum
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
11. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
radical behavioralism
Magnifying/minimizing
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Cognitive Theory
12. Sexual force
getting-learning type
libido
id
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
13. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
hypnosis
psychoanalysis
ruling-dominant type
avoiding type
14. The part of mind that contains the unconscious biological drives and wishes - At birth: mental life is composed solely of the id and its biological drives (sex and aggression) - with development - the id also includes unconscious wishes
id
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Third Force
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
15. psychodynamic approach - because unconscious elements are addressed - in order to be more aware - unconscious material is explored through analyzing dreams - artwork - personal symbols
Behavior theory
Evidence-based treatment
Antipsychotics
therapy (analytical theory)
16. Therapist engages in a dialogue with client rather than leading toward a goal; client learns from dialogue - and together focus on here-and-now experience rather than talking about the past
countertransference
Overgeneralization
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
radical behavioralism
17. Unhealthy individuals are too much affected by inferior feelings to pursue the will to power - make excuses or have a 'yes -but' mentality - if they do pursue goals - these are likely to be self-serving and egotistical
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Carl Gustav Jung
Third Force
Displacement
18. Measures cognitive triad and gauges severity of diagnosed depression; determines number of depressive symptoms - for research and clinical settings
Role playing
ego
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Reaction formation
19. Pioneered object-relations theory and psychoanalysis with children
Anima
Melanie Klein
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
ego
20. 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
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Dichotomous thinking
abnormal theory (individual theory)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
21. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals
Undoing
criticism (existential theory)
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Thanatos
22. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients
psychic determinism
goal of therapy (individual theory)
aggression
Alfred Adler
23. Psychological tension created when (a)ctivating even occurs - and client has certain (b)eliefs about the event - leading to (c)onsequence of emotional disruption
existential theory
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
process of becoming
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
24. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
Psychodynamic theory
criticism (Client-centered theory)
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Rationalization
25. First drugs for psychopathology; - usually to treat positive symptoms of schizophrenia (delusion and hallucination) by blocking dopamine receptors and inhibiting dopamine production (ex. Chlorpromazine (Thorazine®) - and haloperidol (Haldol®))
Behavior theory
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Harry Stack Sullivan
Antipsychotics
26. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
therapy (analytical theory)
Magnifying/minimizing
Play therapy
27. 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
Dichotomous thinking
Hierarchy of needs
Alfred Adler
individual theory
28. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
therapy (Client-centered theory)
neobehaviouralism
Compensation
29. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
Reality principle
catharsis/abreaction
Compensation
Role playing
30. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people
Karen Horney
Aversion therapy
psychic determinism
transference
31. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
individual theory
Personal unconscious
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
catharsis/abreaction
32. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Rational-Emotive Theory
Abraham Maslow
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
therapy (individual theory)
33. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Genuineness/congruence
Compensation
Rational-Emotive Theory
34. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)
psychoanalytic theory
Neal Miller
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
35. Conscious elements were openly acknowledged forces and unconscious elements (drives and wishes) were many layers below consciousness - Freud'S greatest contribution to psychology
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
getting-learning type
Topographic model of mental life
Animus
36. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious
libido
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Neal Miller
catharsis/abreaction
37. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Pleasure principle
Self
criticism (existential theory)
Personalizing
38. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Persona
Will to meaning
Stress-inoculation training
39. No use of diagnostic tools because Rogers believed client-centered therapy applied to any problem
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Personalizing
Neo-Freudians
criticism (Client-centered theory)
40. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
avoiding type
Screen memory
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
41. Material from individual'S own experiences - can become conscious
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Abraham Maslow
psychoanalytic theory
Personal unconscious
42. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
Harry Stack Sullivan
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Role playing
Defense mechanism (+types)
43. 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
therapy (analytical theory)
Antidepressants (+types)
Modeling
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
44. Aim to affect neurotransmitters; commonly dopamine - serotonin - norepinephrine (monoamines)
analytical theory
Hierarchy of needs
Antabuse ®
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
45. Goal is to increase sense of being and meaningfulness - to alleviate neurotic anxiety
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Hierarchy of needs
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Alfred Adler
46. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient
Displacement
Overgeneralization
Shaping
Therapy (Behavior theory)
47. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Projection
Collective unconscious
48. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
Shaping
Stress-inoculation training
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Cognitive triad
49. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism
Alfred Adler
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (individual theory)
Behavior theory
50. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Overgeneralization
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Antipsychotics