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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
hypnosis
Anima
Personalizing
goal of therapy (existential theory)
2. The death instinct - including self-destructive behavior
Genuineness/congruence
Thanatos
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
individual theory
3. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Systematic desensitization
Cognitive Theory
getting-learning type
Repression or denial
4. 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'
Psychopharmacology
individual theory
Humanistic theory
archetype
5. Individual theory
Alfred Adler
3 components of model of mental life
object relations therapy
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
6. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)
behavior theory (originators)
Will to meaning
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
eros
7. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
analytical theory
Neo-Freudians
Flooding or implosive therapy
8. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
Cognitive triad
Repression or denial
Psychodynamic theory
Humanistic theory
9. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt
Repression or denial
Magnifying/minimizing
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Rationalization
10. Applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimulus so eventually the overexposure leads to lessened anxiety
Cognitive triad
Topographic model of mental life
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Flooding or implosive therapy
11. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient
Arbitrary inference
countertransference
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
12. Analytical theory - Freud'S student - broke from Freud because Freud place too much emphasis on the libido
3 components of model of mental life
Carl Gustav Jung
abnormal theory (existential theory)
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
13. Initially: Freud preferred a topographic model of mental life - Then: Mental life was structural - meaning that mental life has particular organization other than layers (ego - id - superego)
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14. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
psychoanalysis
Hans Eysenck
Screen memory
Animus
15. Revolves around philosophical issues particularly the issue of meaning; one`s greatest struggles are being vs. nonbeing - and meaningfulness vs. meaninglessness; will to meaning
Family therapy
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
existential theory
criticism (Behavior theory)
16. People work their way up hierarchy toward self-actualization by satisfying needs at the previous level: physiological needs - hunger - thirst - shelter - warmth - safety - security - stability - lack of fear - belonging - love - acceptance - esteem -
behavior theory (originators)
Hierarchy of needs
superego
Play therapy
17. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification
criticism (Behavior theory)
Stress-inoculation training
radical behavioralism
Reality principle
18. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Magnifying/minimizing
Abraham Maslow
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Karen Horney
19. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (existential theory)
existential theory
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
20. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
criticism (Behavior theory)
Screen memory
Neal Miller
Antimanics
21. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
radical behavioralism
Screen memory
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
22. 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
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Dichotomous thinking
Empathy
individual theory
23. 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
ego
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
process of becoming
Displacement
24. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes
Aversion therapy
neobehaviouralism
Hierarchy of needs
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
25. Based on personal activity and social interest - ruling-dominant type - getting-learning type - avoiding type - socially useful type
Reaction formation
getting-learning type
abnormal theory (individual theory)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
26. abnormality derived from disturbances of awareness - client may not have insight or fully experience present situation (choosing not to acknowledge certain aspects)
Repression or denial
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Assertiveness training
Topographic model of mental life
27. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
therapy (Client-centered theory)
object relations therapy
Projection
Shadow
28. 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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29. 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
criticism (Client-centered theory)
therapy (analytical theory)
object relations therapy
Screen memory
30. Jung - universally meaningful concepts - passed through collective unconscious; - allow us to organize experiences with consistent themes and indicated by cross-cultural similarity in symbols - folklore - myths; - Common archetypes: persona - shadow
Compensation
criticism (Client-centered theory)
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
archetype
31. Criticized effectiveness of psychotherapy after analyzing studies that indicated psychotherapy was no more successful than no treatment at all; other studies contradict this
psychoanalysis
Personalizing
Hans Eysenck
Hierarchy of needs
32. To provide relief from symptoms of psychopathology
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
33. 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)
Persona
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Client-centered theory
Hierarchy of needs
34. Victor Frankl
Projection
criticism (existential theory)
existential theory (originator)
Flooding or implosive therapy
35. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Free association
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Play therapy
36. Freud; central force that must find a socially acceptable outlet
Antipsychotics
aggression
eros
Play therapy
37. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures
criticism (existential theory)
Shadow
Hierarchy of needs
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
38. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
Displacement
Rationalization
abnormal theory (individual theory)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
39. Melancholic - low in activity and low in social contribution - withdrawn
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Reaction formation
avoiding type
40. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
radical behavioralism
Magnifying/minimizing
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
neobehaviouralism
41. Conscious elements were openly acknowledged forces and unconscious elements (drives and wishes) were many layers below consciousness - Freud'S greatest contribution to psychology
hypnosis
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Topographic model of mental life
42. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
Undoing
object-relations theory
criticism (Behavior theory)
Compensation
43. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Psychodynamic theory
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
44. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (individual theory)
Humanistic theory
Arbitrary inference
45. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Sublimation
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Pleasure principle
Behavior theory
46. Maladaptive cognitions lead to abnormal behaviour or disturbed affect; cognitive triad - types of maladaptive cognitions: arbitrary inference - overgeneralization - magnifying/minimizing - personalizing - dichotomous thinking
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
psychic determinism
47. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Psychodynamic theory
Anxiolytics
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
48. 'objects' relationships: real others and one'S internalized image of others;
ruling-dominant type
Flooding or implosive therapy
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
object-relations theory
49. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Antipsychotics
Thanatos
existential theory (originator)
50. Emphasizes conscious thought patterns (rather than emotions or behaviours) - interpretation of an experience rather than the experience itself; Beck Depression Inventory
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Cognitive Theory
goal of therapy (individual theory)