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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. 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
object-relations theory
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Identification
individual theory
2. Drug that changes metabolism of alcohol - resulting in severe nausea and vomiting when combined; countercondition alcoholics
criticism (individual theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
libido
Antabuse ®
3. No use of diagnostic tools because Rogers believed client-centered therapy applied to any problem
Sublimation
transference
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Free association
4. Individual'S mental life consists of a constant push-pull between the competing forces of the id - superego and environment. - each areas struggles for acknowledgement and expression - how well a persons' ego handles this determines his mental health
individual theory
Stress-inoculation training
psychoanalytic theory
Rational-Emotive Theory
5. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Personalizing
Donald Meichenbaum
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
6. Black and white thinking (e.g. 'if I don'T score 100% I have no future')
process of becoming
Cognitive triad
Dichotomous thinking
Rational-Emotive Theory
7. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
Harry Stack Sullivan
Magnifying/minimizing
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Neo-Freudians
8. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people
Karen Horney
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Play therapy
Flooding or implosive therapy
9. 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®)
Rational-Emotive Theory
Client-centered theory
criticism (existential theory)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
10. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions
Harry Stack Sullivan
Alfred Adler
therapy (analytical theory)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
11. Female elements of a man
Karen Horney
Anima
Reality principle
Cognitive Theory
12. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
Flooding or implosive therapy
neobehaviouralism
transference
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
13. 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)
Self
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Psychopharmacology
id
14. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
therapy (analytical theory)
Screen memory
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
15. The life instinct - including sex and love
abnormal theory (individual theory)
eros
archetype
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
16. Victor Frankl
eros
existential theory (originator)
Karen Horney
Melanie Klein
17. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
Rational-Emotive Theory
Antimanics
Hierarchy of needs
object-relations theory
18. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism
Third Force
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Applied psychology
Overgeneralization
19. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Thanatos
Pleasure principle
Karen Horney
Abraham Maslow
20. directed by client who decides how often to meet and what to discuss; therapist is nondirective - providing a self-exploration - safe and trusting atmosphere for client; provide empathy - unconditional positive regard - genuineness/congruence
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Cognitive triad
21. Male elements of a female
Animus
libido
socially useful type
Psychodynamic theory
22. 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'
Humanistic theory
Modeling
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
hypnosis
23. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
id
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
Cognitive triad
Animus
24. 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
abnormal theory (existential theory)
object-relations theory
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Psychopharmacology
25. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Repression or denial
libido
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Dreams
26. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
Magnifying/minimizing
eros
3 components of model of mental life
Psychodynamic theory
27. Embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to true threatening feelings one has
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Persona
Gestalt Theory (originators)
Reaction formation
28. 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
Collective unconscious
archetype
Overgeneralization
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
29. 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
Family therapy
process of becoming
Play therapy
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
30. Emphasizes conscious thought patterns (rather than emotions or behaviours) - interpretation of an experience rather than the experience itself; Beck Depression Inventory
Neal Miller
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Cognitive Theory
goal of therapy (existential theory)
31. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors
Antabuse ®
Modeling
Evidence-based treatment
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
32. 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 -
criticism (individual theory)
Anima
Hierarchy of needs
Karen Horney
33. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
ruling-dominant type
Stress-inoculation training
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
therapy (analytical theory)
34. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
ego
Dreams
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Cognitive triad
35. Criticized effectiveness of psychotherapy after analyzing studies that indicated psychotherapy was no more successful than no treatment at all; other studies contradict this
Anxiolytics
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Hans Eysenck
Gestalt Theory (originators)
36. Measures cognitive triad and gauges severity of diagnosed depression; determines number of depressive symptoms - for research and clinical settings
Therapy (Behavior theory)
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
37. 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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38. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Evidence-based treatment
radical behavioralism
Genuineness/congruence
39. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
Neal Miller
Collective unconscious
Personal unconscious
id
40. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Pleasure principle
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
socially useful type
Dreams
41. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Systematic desensitization
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Pleasure principle
42. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
radical behavioralism
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Cognitive Theory
Dichotomous thinking
43. Correct maladaptive cognitions
Projection
Screen memory
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
catharsis/abreaction
44. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
Screen memory
criticism (individual theory)
Abraham Maslow
criticism (Behavior theory)
45. Pioneered object-relations theory and psychoanalysis with children
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Antidepressants (+types)
Melanie Klein
Undoing
46. 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
Flooding or implosive therapy
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Family therapy
Genuineness/congruence
47. Encourage people to stand apart from beliefs - biases and attitudes derived from the past - goal is to fully experience and perceive the present in order to become a while and integrated person
Shaping
Gestalt Theory
psychic determinism
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
48. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
Neo-Freudians
Applied psychology
3 components of model of mental life
Rationalization
49. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Displacement
Personalizing
50. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Genuineness/congruence
Client-centered theory
Repression or denial
Will to meaning