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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Like cognitive and behaviour theory - considered too sterile and mechanistic
Humanistic theory
Empathy
Hans Eysenck
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
2. Not suited for low-functioning or disturbed clients
Sublimation
Harry Stack Sullivan
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
Third Force
3. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
Animus
Compensation
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Pleasure principle
4. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
Psychodynamic theory
Thanatos
Family therapy
Antidepressants (+types)
5. Ritualistic activity to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives
Compensation
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Hans Eysenck
Undoing
6. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
Carl Gustav Jung
Anxiolytics
Sublimation
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
7. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
Dichotomous thinking
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Humanistic theory
Stress-inoculation training
8. 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
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
psychic determinism
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
9. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Unconditional positive regard
ego
10. Treats family as a whole as client
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
behavior theory (originators)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
Family therapy
11. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
Psychopharmacology
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Evidence-based treatment
Gestalt Theory
12. Male elements of a female
avoiding type
Role playing
Antabuse ®
Animus
13. Freud; central force that must find a socially acceptable outlet
aggression
Abraham Maslow
Antimanics
Personalizing
14. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
Free association
Flooding or implosive therapy
Hans Eysenck
Magnifying/minimizing
15. Stress-inoculation training
psychic determinism
Stress-inoculation training
Third Force
Donald Meichenbaum
16. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures
Identification
Shadow
Free association
Unconditional positive regard
17. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
Neo-Freudians
analytical theory
Melanie Klein
Karen Horney
18. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective
Empathy
Harry Stack Sullivan
Abraham Maslow
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
19. 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
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
process of becoming
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Evidence-based treatment
20. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)
getting-learning type
Genuineness/congruence
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Anima
21. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Play therapy
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
therapy (existential theory)
22. Too mystical or spiritual
Aversion therapy
criticism (analytical theory)
Modeling
Karen Horney
23. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Undoing
Anna Freud
abnormal theory (individual theory)
24. 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'
Humanistic theory
Antabuse ®
Antipsychotics
eros
25. Individual'S mental life consists of a constant push-pull between the competing forces of the id - superego and environment. - each areas struggles for acknowledgement and expression - how well a persons' ego handles this determines his mental health
psychoanalytic theory
Topographic model of mental life
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
26. 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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27. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Compensation
analytical theory
Aversion therapy
28. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals
Screen memory
abnormal theory (individual theory)
criticism (existential theory)
Antabuse ®
29. Correct maladaptive cognitions
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Client-centered theory
psychoanalytic theory
Personalizing
30. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Harry Stack Sullivan
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
countertransference
31. 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
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Magnifying/minimizing
Animus
Antidepressants (+types)
32. Aaron Beck
Psychopharmacology
Shadow
Antipsychotics
Cognitive Theory (originator)
33. Pavlov'S classical counterconditioning principles to create new responses to stimuli
neobehaviouralism
individual theory
Behavior theory
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
34. 'Joseph Breuer' the central process in which a patient reports thoughts without censure or guidance - Freud: because unconscious material is always looking for a way out - the patient can uncover and express repressed material through free associatio
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Free association
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Antipsychotics
35. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
Will to meaning
neobehaviouralism
Personalizing
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
36. To provide relief from symptoms of psychopathology
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
superego
therapy (individual theory)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
37. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification
ego
Reality principle
process of becoming
Applied psychology
38. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors
aggression
Melanie Klein
Stress-inoculation training
Anima
39. Drugs that take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support
abnormal theory (existential theory)
therapy (Client-centered theory)
psychoanalysis
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
40. 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
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
object relations therapy
eros
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
41. 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
individual theory
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
42. Drug that changes metabolism of alcohol - resulting in severe nausea and vomiting when combined; countercondition alcoholics
Gestalt Theory
Antabuse ®
Cognitive triad
psychoanalysis
43. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
aggression
Stress-inoculation training
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
44. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
ruling-dominant type
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Psychopharmacology
Projection
45. Includes elements of cognitive - behavioural - and emotion theory; intertwined thoughts and feelings produce behavior
Dichotomous thinking
Rational-Emotive Theory
individual theory
neobehaviouralism
46. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka
Carl Gustav Jung
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
eros
Gestalt Theory (originators)
47. Measures cognitive triad and gauges severity of diagnosed depression; determines number of depressive symptoms - for research and clinical settings
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Defense mechanism (+types)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
48. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Unconditional positive regard
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Hans Eysenck
49. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Repression or denial
superego
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
50. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
libido
existential theory
hypnosis
Assertiveness training