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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Albert Ellis
Flooding or implosive therapy
process of becoming
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Arbitrary inference
2. Analytical theory - Freud'S student - broke from Freud because Freud place too much emphasis on the libido
Carl Gustav Jung
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Reality principle
psychoanalytic theory
3. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (Behavior theory)
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Personal unconscious
4. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
psychoanalytic theory
psychoanalysis
catharsis/abreaction
Neal Miller
5. Psychodynamic approach in which unconscious feelings do play a role - examination of a person'S lifestyle and choices (motivations - perceptions - goals - and resources)
psychic determinism
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (individual theory)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
6. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory
Unconditional positive regard
Reaction formation
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
psychoanalytic theory
7. 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)
Psychodynamic theory
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Shadow
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
8. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
psychoanalytic theory
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
object-relations theory
Carl Gustav Jung
9. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
Overgeneralization
existential theory
superego
Harry Stack Sullivan
10. 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
psychic determinism
eros
Family therapy
Role playing
11. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
Psychodynamic theory
Client-centered theory
Genuineness/congruence
Applied psychology
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
object relations therapy
process of becoming
Screen memory
catharsis/abreaction
13. Provide trusting atmosphere for client to self-direct growth and tap his own 'vast resources' - evidence of growth includes a congruent self-concept - positive self-regard - internal locus-of-evaluation - and willingness to experience
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
criticism (Client-centered theory)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Personal unconscious
14. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
Thanatos
psychic determinism
Assertiveness training
Neo-Freudians
15. Drugs that take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support
Reality principle
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Evidence-based treatment
Assertiveness training
16. Ritualistic activity to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives
Undoing
Genuineness/congruence
therapy (existential theory)
Arbitrary inference
17. 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)
Antimanics
aggression
Hierarchy of needs
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
18. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Cognitive Theory
Topographic model of mental life
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
19. Sexual force
analytical theory
Personal unconscious
libido
archetype
20. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
Alfred Adler
Defense mechanism (+types)
Antimanics
countertransference
21. Pioneered object-relations theory and psychoanalysis with children
Melanie Klein
Anna Freud
Compensation
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
22. Use of medication to treat mental illness - do not cure but some are effective at alleviating symptoms; often used with therapy
Assertiveness training
Psychopharmacology
Unconditional positive regard
Anima
23. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism
Genuineness/congruence
Overgeneralization
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
therapy (Client-centered theory)
24. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Identification
Antimanics
hypnosis
25. Melancholic - low in activity and low in social contribution - withdrawn
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
existential theory
avoiding type
catharsis/abreaction
26. The death instinct - including self-destructive behavior
existential theory (originator)
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
archetype
Thanatos
27. Treats family as a whole as client
Family therapy
Play therapy
Karen Horney
libido
28. abnormality derived from disturbances of awareness - client may not have insight or fully experience present situation (choosing not to acknowledge certain aspects)
Screen memory
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Hans Eysenck
29. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
id
radical behavioralism
Reality principle
Donald Meichenbaum
30. Phlegmatic - low in activity and high in social contribution - dependent
Reaction formation
getting-learning type
Personal unconscious
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
31. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Gestalt Theory (originators)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Pleasure principle
Therapy (Behavior theory)
32. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
archetype
Reality principle
Neal Miller
Shadow
33. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Alfred Adler
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Identification
34. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
socially useful type
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Identification
35. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
countertransference
existential theory (originator)
Rationalization
36. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
id
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Screen memory
abnormal theory (existential theory)
37. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
Antidepressants (+types)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Anna Freud
Anxiolytics
38. 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
Cognitive Theory (originator)
id
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Applied psychology
39. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism
Third Force
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Donald Meichenbaum
Alfred Adler
40. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)
Displacement
Personal unconscious
Third Force
Genuineness/congruence
41. Based on personal activity and social interest - ruling-dominant type - getting-learning type - avoiding type - socially useful type
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Karen Horney
Donald Meichenbaum
42. 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
Will to meaning
process of becoming
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
43. Stress-inoculation training
abnormal theory (individual theory)
analytical theory
Assertiveness training
Donald Meichenbaum
44. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
aggression
Dichotomous thinking
Projection
criticism (individual theory)
45. Embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to true threatening feelings one has
Reaction formation
process of becoming
object relations therapy
Empathy
46. Psychopathology is a signal that something wrong in makeup of psyche - clues about how one could be more aware
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Undoing
Gestalt Theory
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
47. Freud; central force that must find a socially acceptable outlet
Antidepressants (+types)
aggression
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
48. Allows client to practice new behaviours and responses
Role playing
Arbitrary inference
existential theory (originator)
avoiding type
49. The life instinct - including sex and love
Psychodynamic theory
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
eros
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
50. Criticized effectiveness of psychotherapy after analyzing studies that indicated psychotherapy was no more successful than no treatment at all; other studies contradict this
Psychopharmacology
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Hans Eysenck