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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
Collective unconscious
Cognitive triad
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Dreams
2. Embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to true threatening feelings one has
Reaction formation
Humanistic theory
superego
Personal unconscious
3. Class of neurotransmitter that dopamine - serotonin - and norepinephrine belongs to
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Monoamines (examples)
Stress-inoculation training
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
4. 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
Hans Eysenck
Persona
Stress-inoculation training
process of becoming
5. Applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimulus so eventually the overexposure leads to lessened anxiety
Flooding or implosive therapy
Carl Gustav Jung
Screen memory
Cognitive triad
6. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Antimanics
ego
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
7. Aaron Beck
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Personal unconscious
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
8. 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 -
eros
Hierarchy of needs
Systematic desensitization
analytical theory
9. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
criticism (Client-centered theory)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Dreams
Applied psychology
10. Carl Gustav Jung - the psyche was directed toward life and awareness (rather than sex) - In each personal the psyche contains conscious and unconscious elements (personal and collective unconscious)
Behavior theory
abnormal theory (existential theory)
analytical theory
ego
11. 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)
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
libido
Repression or denial
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
12. Stress-inoculation training
Donald Meichenbaum
Dichotomous thinking
Anima
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
13. 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
eros
Harry Stack Sullivan
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
individual theory
14. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet
Applied psychology
psychoanalytic theory
hypnosis
Assertiveness training
15. Male elements of a female
Anima
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Animus
16. Use of medication to treat mental illness - do not cure but some are effective at alleviating symptoms; often used with therapy
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Psychopharmacology
17. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals
Antabuse ®
Flooding or implosive therapy
Self
criticism (existential theory)
18. Pavlov'S classical counterconditioning principles to create new responses to stimuli
therapy (analytical theory)
Play therapy
object relations therapy
neobehaviouralism
19. It is best used with normal people in search of growth
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (individual theory)
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
20. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
Will to meaning
Third Force
Antipsychotics
Compensation
21. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
individual theory
Dreams
Will to meaning
22. Albert Ellis
Anxiolytics
ego
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Antidepressants (+types)
23. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
Cognitive triad
Screen memory
avoiding type
Neo-Freudians
24. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient
countertransference
Cognitive Theory (originator)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Donald Meichenbaum
25. Ego - id - superego
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
3 components of model of mental life
Assertiveness training
Compensation
26. No use of diagnostic tools because Rogers believed client-centered therapy applied to any problem
psychoanalysis
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Hans Eysenck
criticism (Client-centered theory)
27. Person'S outer mask - mediator to external world; masks in cultures
Persona
Modeling
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Compensation
28. Goal is to increase sense of being and meaningfulness - to alleviate neurotic anxiety
existential theory (originator)
Flooding or implosive therapy
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
goal of therapy (existential theory)
29. short-term and directed; - thoughts - feelings and unconsciousness not addressed; - Therapist use counterconditioning techniques to help client learn new responses; - Techniques: systematic desensitization - flooding or implosive therapy - aversion t
Therapy (Behavior theory)
neobehaviouralism
Defense mechanism (+types)
object relations therapy
30. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (analytical theory)
Aversion therapy
Karen Horney
31. Drug that changes metabolism of alcohol - resulting in severe nausea and vomiting when combined; countercondition alcoholics
Antabuse ®
Persona
Free association
avoiding type
32. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
ruling-dominant type
Magnifying/minimizing
Sublimation
abnormal theory (existential theory)
33. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Neo-Freudians
Antabuse ®
Assertiveness training
34. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Evidence-based treatment
getting-learning type
Sublimation
Projection
35. Material from individual'S own experiences - can become conscious
criticism (individual theory)
Identification
Personal unconscious
Donald Meichenbaum
36. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
Role playing
getting-learning type
therapy (individual theory)
psychoanalysis
37. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
therapy (existential theory)
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
Animus
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
38. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action
Client-centered theory
Self
Behavior theory
Shaping
39. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
socially useful type
Defense mechanism (+types)
40. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
criticism (analytical theory)
superego
Shaping
Anna Freud
41. 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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42. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism
libido
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
Third Force
Anima
43. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes
Aversion therapy
radical behavioralism
psychic determinism
Hierarchy of needs
44. Drawing conclusion without solid evidence (e.g. 'Boss hates me because he never asks me to play golf')
Arbitrary inference
3 components of model of mental life
psychoanalysis
Animus
45. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
Dichotomous thinking
Antipsychotics
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
46. Joseph Wolpe - applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - exposed to increasingly anxiety-provoking stimuli until anxiety is decreased - start from staring at a picture of snake and then eventually holding on
Systematic desensitization
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
analytical theory
Compensation
47. The life instinct - including sex and love
eros
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
catharsis/abreaction
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
48. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist
psychic determinism
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Rational-Emotive Theory
49. Too mystical or spiritual
Animus
countertransference
Psychopharmacology
criticism (analytical theory)
50. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient
Alfred Adler
Pleasure principle
Displacement
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)