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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Arbitrary inference
object-relations theory
Abraham Maslow
2. Choleric -high in activity but low in social contribution - dominant
avoiding type
Anima
ruling-dominant type
Screen memory
3. 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®)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
Anxiolytics
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Behavior theory
4. 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
Neal Miller
object relations therapy
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
psychic determinism
5. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism
getting-learning type
Behavior theory
Stress-inoculation training
behavior theory (originators)
6. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
Monoamines (examples)
Identification
behavior theory (originators)
ego
7. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
eros
Projection
8. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
criticism (Behavior theory)
Genuineness/congruence
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Undoing
9. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Displacement
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Anxiolytics
Pleasure principle
10. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors
Stress-inoculation training
Shadow
ruling-dominant type
Antabuse ®
11. 'objects' relationships: real others and one'S internalized image of others;
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
object-relations theory
Dichotomous thinking
Personalizing
12. Patients are seen 4-5 times a week and for many years - Initially: hypnosis - Then: free association - Transference - countertransference
psychoanalysis
Repression or denial
Shadow
Psychopharmacology
13. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
catharsis/abreaction
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Evidence-based treatment
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
14. Female elements of a man
Antimanics
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Anima
object relations therapy
15. B.F. Skinner - Ivan Pavlov - Joseph Wolpe
behavior theory (originators)
psychoanalytic theory
archetype
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
16. Full individual potential; Buddha - Jesus and mandala in cultures
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
analytical theory
eros
Self
17. Delivers electric current to brain to induce convulsions; effective for severely depressed patients
hypnosis
Sublimation
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
18. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Role playing
Dreams
catharsis/abreaction
Anxiolytics
19. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
Shaping
abnormal theory (individual theory)
abnormal theory (existential theory)
countertransference
20. Material from individual'S own experiences - can become conscious
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
transference
Personal unconscious
21. 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
radical behavioralism
superego
Dichotomous thinking
Monoamines (examples)
22. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action
Topographic model of mental life
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
Neo-Freudians
Shaping
23. Treats family as a whole as client
Evidence-based treatment
aggression
Dichotomous thinking
Family therapy
24. Provide trusting atmosphere for client to self-direct growth and tap his own 'vast resources' - evidence of growth includes a congruent self-concept - positive self-regard - internal locus-of-evaluation - and willingness to experience
criticism (Behavior theory)
criticism (existential theory)
Antidepressants (+types)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
25. Based on personal activity and social interest - ruling-dominant type - getting-learning type - avoiding type - socially useful type
Reaction formation
Self
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Antimanics
26. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
Karen Horney
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
aggression
neobehaviouralism
27. psychodynamic approach - because unconscious elements are addressed - in order to be more aware - unconscious material is explored through analyzing dreams - artwork - personal symbols
therapy (analytical theory)
Dreams
criticism (Behavior theory)
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
28. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Harry Stack Sullivan
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
29. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
therapy (individual theory)
Antimanics
Rationalization
countertransference
30. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
goal of therapy (existential theory)
avoiding type
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Thanatos
31. Ego - id - superego
3 components of model of mental life
Third Force
Client-centered theory
Hans Eysenck
32. Ritualistic activity to relieve anxiety about unconscious drives
Rationalization
Undoing
Flooding or implosive therapy
Psychodynamic theory
33. 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
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Harry Stack Sullivan
Antidepressants (+types)
Monoamines (examples)
34. 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)
analytical theory
psychoanalytic theory
transference
Harry Stack Sullivan
35. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures
Melanie Klein
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Shadow
Overgeneralization
36. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
Repression or denial
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Role playing
Abraham Maslow
37. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
transference
Cognitive Theory
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
eros
38. 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
Stress-inoculation training
process of becoming
Pleasure principle
Melanie Klein
39. It is best used with normal people in search of growth
criticism (individual theory)
catharsis/abreaction
Antipsychotics
Behavior theory
40. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
Defense mechanism (+types)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Compensation
41. 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)
Humanistic theory
3 components of model of mental life
Assertiveness training
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
42. Freud; central force that must find a socially acceptable outlet
radical behavioralism
Persona
Alfred Adler
aggression
43. Fritz Perls - Max Wertheimer - Kurt Koffka
archetype
Compensation
Monoamines (examples)
Gestalt Theory (originators)
44. Imitating a central figure - such as a parent
object-relations theory
Identification
countertransference
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
45. 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
Anxiolytics
Antipsychotics
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Client-centered theory
46. Client-centered therapist must maintain positivity regardless of choices - feelings or insights to facilitate a trusting and safe environment
Unconditional positive regard
therapy (existential theory)
Alfred Adler
Overgeneralization
47. 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 (Cognitive Theory)
criticism (individual theory)
Undoing
Thanatos
48. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
hypnosis
Antimanics
catharsis/abreaction
Will to meaning
49. Rollo May - individual constantly strives to rise above a simple behavioral existence and toward genuine and meaningful existence
Will to meaning
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Antipsychotics
Role playing
50. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
Assertiveness training
Antipsychotics
Flooding or implosive therapy
superego