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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
radical behavioralism
2. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
psychoanalytic theory
ego
Screen memory
Reaction formation
3. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka
Gestalt Theory (originators)
Identification
Compensation
Sublimation
4. Drug that changes metabolism of alcohol - resulting in severe nausea and vomiting when combined; countercondition alcoholics
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Antabuse ®
3 components of model of mental life
Evidence-based treatment
5. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
existential theory (originator)
Modeling
Personalizing
Pleasure principle
6. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
Compensation
Cognitive triad
Rationalization
Third Force
7. 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
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Dreams
Therapy (Behavior theory)
8. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed
transference
Play therapy
archetype
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
9. Sexual force
libido
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Antabuse ®
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
10. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions
Gestalt Theory (originators)
Aversion therapy
Harry Stack Sullivan
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
11. Criticized effectiveness of psychotherapy after analyzing studies that indicated psychotherapy was no more successful than no treatment at all; other studies contradict this
getting-learning type
Hans Eysenck
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
12. Carl Rogers - Person centered/Rogerian theory - humanistic --> it has an optimistic outlook on human nature; - individual have an actualizing tendency that directs them out of conflict and toward full potential - best accomplished in atmosphere that
Antabuse ®
Personalizing
Client-centered theory
Assertiveness training
13. 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)
object relations therapy
Donald Meichenbaum
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
14. 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
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Projection
Self
15. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients
therapy (analytical theory)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Compensation
Cognitive Theory
16. Victor Frankl
existential theory (originator)
Rationalization
Self
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
17. Full individual potential; Buddha - Jesus and mandala in cultures
Play therapy
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
3 components of model of mental life
Self
18. 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
criticism (individual theory)
catharsis/abreaction
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
19. 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 -
Reaction formation
Hierarchy of needs
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
20. Drugs that take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support
Behavior theory
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
ruling-dominant type
Gestalt Theory (originators)
21. Psychopathology is a signal that something wrong in makeup of psyche - clues about how one could be more aware
Anna Freud
Personal unconscious
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
ruling-dominant type
22. Ritualistic activity to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives
Shadow
Assertiveness training
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Undoing
23. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
therapy (existential theory)
neobehaviouralism
Third Force
24. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Projection
Monoamines (examples)
Hans Eysenck
neobehaviouralism
25. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Genuineness/congruence
Defense mechanism (+types)
Evidence-based treatment
26. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective
Screen memory
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Empathy
27. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Identification
Personalizing
Topographic model of mental life
28. 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 (existential theory)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
29. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors
radical behavioralism
Modeling
avoiding type
ruling-dominant type
30. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
Neo-Freudians
therapy (individual theory)
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Dreams
31. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy
socially useful type
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
therapy (individual theory)
Identification
32. Albert Ellis
hypnosis
psychoanalytic theory
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
analytical theory
33. Central to human nature - between different drives vying for expression (particularly conscious and unconscious
Role playing
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
ruling-dominant type
34. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
aggression
Abraham Maslow
35. Too mystical or spiritual
Cognitive Theory
existential theory
individual theory
criticism (analytical theory)
36. To provide relief from symptoms of psychopathology
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Carl Gustav Jung
socially useful type
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
37. Talking therapy - deep questions relating to perception and meaning of existence
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Rationalization
therapy (existential theory)
Self
38. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Arbitrary inference
countertransference
hypnosis
39. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
Cognitive triad
Neo-Freudians
Pleasure principle
Unconditional positive regard
40. 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
Self
process of becoming
superego
Gestalt Theory (originators)
41. Unhealthy individuals are too much affected by inferior feelings to pursue the will to power - make excuses or have a 'yes -but' mentality - if they do pursue goals - these are likely to be self-serving and egotistical
Assertiveness training
Shadow
abnormal theory (individual theory)
behavior theory (originators)
42. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism
Systematic desensitization
process of becoming
abnormal theory (existential theory)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
43. Used to reduce anxiety or to induce sleep; increases effectiveness of GABA (inhibitory); high potential for causing habituation and addiction; Ex. barbiturates and benzodiazepines such as diazepam (Valium®) and alprazolam (Xanax®)
Sublimation
Anxiolytics
Repression or denial
avoiding type
44. Freud; pathological behaviour - dreams - unconscious behaviour (e.g. hysterical or neurotic women) are symptoms of underlying - unresolved conflict - which are manifested when the ego does not find acceptable ways to express conflict
criticism (Behavior theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
psychic determinism
Stress-inoculation training
45. Treats family as a whole as client
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Modeling
Abraham Maslow
Family therapy
46. The life instinct - including sex and love
Dichotomous thinking
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Assertiveness training
eros
47. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
Role playing
Humanistic theory
Overgeneralization
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
48. B.F. Skinner - Ivan Pavlov - Joseph Wolpe
Shadow
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
behavior theory (originators)
Animus
49. 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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50. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Anxiolytics
Third Force
ruling-dominant type