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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Antabuse ®
Magnifying/minimizing
Carl Gustav Jung
2. Includes elements of cognitive - behavioural - and emotion theory; intertwined thoughts and feelings produce behavior
libido
process of becoming
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Rational-Emotive Theory
3. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes
Humanistic theory
Aversion therapy
Persona
individual theory
4. B.F. Skinner - Ivan Pavlov - Joseph Wolpe
behavior theory (originators)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Flooding or implosive therapy
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
5. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Behavior theory
Cognitive triad
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
6. Measures cognitive triad and gauges severity of diagnosed depression; determines number of depressive symptoms - for research and clinical settings
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
7. Aaron Beck
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Third Force
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Self
8. Considered too abstract for severely disturbed individuals
Reality principle
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (existential theory)
neobehaviouralism
9. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
hypnosis
socially useful type
Modeling
10. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
Overgeneralization
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
individual theory
Harry Stack Sullivan
11. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious
Modeling
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (Behavior theory)
12. 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
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
therapy (individual theory)
Cognitive triad
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
13. Applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimulus so eventually the overexposure leads to lessened anxiety
Role playing
neobehaviouralism
Flooding or implosive therapy
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
14. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
Abraham Maslow
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Neal Miller
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
15. Based on personal activity and social interest - ruling-dominant type - getting-learning type - avoiding type - socially useful type
Gestalt Theory
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
16. Female elements of a man
Free association
Family therapy
Projection
Anima
17. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
criticism (analytical theory)
Antimanics
Modeling
individual theory
18. Inherited from ancestors - common to all and contains archetypes
Collective unconscious
existential theory (originator)
Anna Freud
Undoing
19. 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)
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
object-relations theory
Shadow
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Hans Eysenck
21. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Neal Miller
neobehaviouralism
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
22. Melancholic - low in activity and low in social contribution - withdrawn
Neo-Freudians
Thanatos
avoiding type
ego
23. 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
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Third Force
Aversion therapy
24. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Hierarchy of needs
Dreams
Overgeneralization
Anima
25. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
Hans Eysenck
superego
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Will to meaning
26. 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
Psychodynamic theory
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
id
Karen Horney
27. 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
Client-centered theory
3 components of model of mental life
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Antidepressants (+types)
28. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
libido
Carl Gustav Jung
ruling-dominant type
Neal Miller
29. Delivers electric current to brain to induce convulsions; effective for severely depressed patients
id
process of becoming
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
existential theory (originator)
30. 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
Neal Miller
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Play therapy
Melanie Klein
31. 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)
Family therapy
Displacement
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
individual theory
32. Stress-inoculation training
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Anxiolytics
Donald Meichenbaum
33. Psychopathology is a signal that something wrong in makeup of psyche - clues about how one could be more aware
aggression
superego
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
Empathy
34. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
Third Force
psychoanalysis
Abraham Maslow
35. 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
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
36. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
Antipsychotics
therapy (individual theory)
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Free association
37. 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 (Gestalt Theory)
Free association
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Melanie Klein
38. Ex. phenelzine (Nardil®)
Topographic model of mental life
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Family therapy
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
39. Individual theory
criticism (individual theory)
aggression
Assertiveness training
Alfred Adler
40. psychodynamic approach - because unconscious elements are addressed - in order to be more aware - unconscious material is explored through analyzing dreams - artwork - personal symbols
Rational-Emotive Theory
Overgeneralization
therapy (analytical theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
41. Psychological tension created when (a)ctivating even occurs - and client has certain (b)eliefs about the event - leading to (c)onsequence of emotional disruption
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Humanistic theory
Psychodynamic theory
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
42. Albert Ellis
Shaping
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
existential theory
Systematic desensitization
43. The part of mind that imposes learned or socialized drives - not something one is born with - but develops over time - influenced by moral and parental training
Arbitrary inference
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
Client-centered theory
superego
44. 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
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Hans Eysenck
psychoanalysis
individual theory
45. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Psychodynamic theory
Sublimation
Abraham Maslow
Will to meaning
46. Client-centered therapist must maintain positivity regardless of choices - feelings or insights to facilitate a trusting and safe environment
Rational-Emotive Theory
Unconditional positive regard
aggression
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
47. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
ruling-dominant type
Dreams
Dichotomous thinking
Monoamines (examples)
48. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Antabuse ®
Applied psychology
id
49. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist
Family therapy
radical behavioralism
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
50. Ego - id - superego
Behavior theory
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
avoiding type
3 components of model of mental life