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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
criticism (analytical theory)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
hypnosis
2. It is best used with normal people in search of growth
Applied psychology
criticism (individual theory)
Anima
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
3. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
Animus
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Applied psychology
4. Phlegmatic - low in activity and high in social contribution - dependent
getting-learning type
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Personalizing
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
5. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
Role playing
superego
catharsis/abreaction
Neal Miller
6. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt
Gestalt Theory
Rationalization
Carl Gustav Jung
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
7. 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'
Dichotomous thinking
therapy (individual theory)
Humanistic theory
Pleasure principle
8. Methodology - theory developed from single case studies - which is not scientific
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Overgeneralization
Pleasure principle
9. 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
Undoing
analytical theory
therapy (Client-centered theory)
superego
10. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification
Antidepressants (+types)
Reality principle
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
behavior theory (originators)
11. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
Karen Horney
behavior theory (originators)
Cognitive triad
catharsis/abreaction
12. Applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimulus so eventually the overexposure leads to lessened anxiety
Flooding or implosive therapy
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Reaction formation
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
13. Person'S outer mask - mediator to external world; masks in cultures
individual theory
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Persona
14. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
Persona
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Monoamines (examples)
Personalizing
15. Not suited for low-functioning or disturbed clients
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
16. Act only on serotonin - most frequently prescribed because fewer side effects than tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) and monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs); Ex. fluoxetine (Prozac®) - paroxetine (Paxil®) - sertraline (Zoloft®)
countertransference
Neal Miller
ruling-dominant type
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
17. Allows client to practice new behaviours and responses
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Screen memory
Role playing
analytical theory
18. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)
getting-learning type
Cognitive Theory
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
19. Sexual force
libido
analytical theory
Reaction formation
Defense mechanism (+types)
20. Delivers electric current to brain to induce convulsions; effective for severely depressed patients
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Shadow
Identification
21. Measures cognitive triad and gauges severity of diagnosed depression; determines number of depressive symptoms - for research and clinical settings
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
psychoanalytic theory
analytical theory
abnormal theory (individual theory)
22. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
radical behavioralism
Client-centered theory
countertransference
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
23. Conscious elements were openly acknowledged forces and unconscious elements (drives and wishes) were many layers below consciousness - Freud'S greatest contribution to psychology
Will to meaning
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Topographic model of mental life
24. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
socially useful type
Will to meaning
radical behavioralism
Persona
25. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
getting-learning type
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Dichotomous thinking
therapy (individual theory)
26. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Neal Miller
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
transference
27. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Magnifying/minimizing
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
28. Channelling threatening drives into acceptable outlets
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Anima
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Sublimation
29. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Neo-Freudians
Shadow
Screen memory
30. Stress-inoculation training
Screen memory
Flooding or implosive therapy
Donald Meichenbaum
individual theory
31. 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
object relations therapy
Free association
Systematic desensitization
Reality principle
32. Male elements of a female
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
avoiding type
Anxiolytics
Animus
33. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
Assertiveness training
therapy (Client-centered theory)
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
34. Inherited from ancestors - common to all and contains archetypes
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
criticism (existential theory)
Collective unconscious
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
35. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient
Pleasure principle
Third Force
Anima
countertransference
36. 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
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Humanistic theory
object relations therapy
Monoamines (examples)
37. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
Systematic desensitization
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Anima
Gestalt Theory (originators)
38. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
Projection
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
superego
39. Talking therapy - deep questions relating to perception and meaning of existence
therapy (analytical theory)
Persona
therapy (existential theory)
Undoing
40. The death instinct - including self-destructive behavior
Personal unconscious
countertransference
Thanatos
Genuineness/congruence
41. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Repression or denial
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Anna Freud
42. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy
Repression or denial
Topographic model of mental life
socially useful type
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
43. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient
Shaping
Antipsychotics
Cognitive triad
Displacement
44. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Abraham Maslow
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Pleasure principle
45. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
existential theory (originator)
Overgeneralization
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
46. Treatment for mental health problems shown to produce results in empirical studies; many argue only this is ethical; others argue controlled experiments not like real treatments - less useful and applicable
Stress-inoculation training
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Evidence-based treatment
Family therapy
47. 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
Stress-inoculation training
id
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Cognitive Theory
48. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism
Free association
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
criticism (Client-centered theory)
49. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
transference
Identification
Displacement
aggression
50. Class of neurotransmitter that dopamine - serotonin - and norepinephrine belongs to
Monoamines (examples)
psychoanalytic theory
Topographic model of mental life
Psychodynamic theory