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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures
Cognitive Theory (originator)
hypnosis
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Shadow
2. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Topographic model of mental life
Modeling
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Dreams
3. 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)
Antidepressants (+types)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Assertiveness training
analytical theory
4. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism
Systematic desensitization
process of becoming
Behavior theory
Monoamines (examples)
5. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
catharsis/abreaction
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
hypnosis
6. 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
archetype
Systematic desensitization
neobehaviouralism
Reality principle
7. To provide relief from symptoms of psychopathology
Undoing
Donald Meichenbaum
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
id
8. Stress-inoculation training
Role playing
Donald Meichenbaum
ego
Harry Stack Sullivan
9. 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
Identification
Antidepressants (+types)
catharsis/abreaction
id
10. Pavlov'S classical counterconditioning principles to create new responses to stimuli
Role playing
Dreams
neobehaviouralism
Personal unconscious
11. 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
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
countertransference
psychic determinism
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
12. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors
Cognitive Theory
Persona
Modeling
Psychodynamic theory
13. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed
Play therapy
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Overgeneralization
Will to meaning
14. 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
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
abnormal theory (individual theory)
criticism (analytical theory)
15. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Abraham Maslow
Repression or denial
Anna Freud
Aversion therapy
16. 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
individual theory
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
Neo-Freudians
getting-learning type
17. Emphasized social and interpersonal relationships; what one does is meant to elicit particular reactions
therapy (Client-centered theory)
existential theory (originator)
Harry Stack Sullivan
Arbitrary inference
18. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
Projection
Reality principle
psychoanalysis
criticism (Behavior theory)
19. Highly directive; therapist leads client to (d)ispute previously applied irrational beliefs
existential theory
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
criticism (individual theory)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
20. Treats family as a whole as client
Cognitive triad
Family therapy
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Self
21. Phlegmatic - low in activity and high in social contribution - dependent
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
getting-learning type
avoiding type
psychic determinism
22. Correct maladaptive cognitions
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Overgeneralization
psychic determinism
23. 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
Harry Stack Sullivan
Evidence-based treatment
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
24. 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 -
Donald Meichenbaum
Dichotomous thinking
psychic determinism
Hierarchy of needs
25. Sexual force
Collective unconscious
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
libido
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
26. Allows client to practice new behaviours and responses
Screen memory
Role playing
Thanatos
criticism (Client-centered theory)
27. 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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28. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
Anxiolytics
aggression
Behavior theory
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
29. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
transference
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
psychoanalysis
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
30. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
ego
Donald Meichenbaum
Antipsychotics
Anxiolytics
31. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
Self
criticism (analytical theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
radical behavioralism
32. 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
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
process of becoming
id
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
33. Psychodynamic approach in which unconscious feelings do play a role - examination of a person'S lifestyle and choices (motivations - perceptions - goals - and resources)
Cognitive triad
therapy (individual theory)
Humanistic theory
countertransference
34. The branch of psychology that uses principles or research findings to solve people'S problems
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Identification
hypnosis
Applied psychology
35. Albert Ellis
Self
Monoamines (examples)
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Cognitive triad
36. Goal is exploration of awareness and full experiencing of the present; success is connecting client with present existence
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
Sublimation
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Reaction formation
37. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
hypnosis
Neal Miller
Neo-Freudians
38. Psychopathology is a signal that something wrong in makeup of psyche - clues about how one could be more aware
Cognitive Theory (originator)
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
psychoanalytic theory
Monoamines (examples)
39. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people
Karen Horney
therapy (analytical theory)
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
id
40. B.F. Skinner - Ivan Pavlov - Joseph Wolpe
behavior theory (originators)
criticism (existential theory)
aggression
psychic determinism
41. In psychotherapy - in reaction to psychoanalysis and behavioralism
Projection
object relations therapy
Third Force
Harry Stack Sullivan
42. 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
psychoanalytic theory
Antipsychotics
process of becoming
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
43. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Antabuse ®
Shadow
Compensation
44. The life instinct - including sex and love
eros
Behavior theory
radical behavioralism
criticism (individual theory)
45. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
Personalizing
individual theory
Neo-Freudians
Projection
46. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
criticism (analytical theory)
Overgeneralization
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
47. How a therapist feels about his/her patients; analyst'S transfer of unconscious feelings or wishes (central figures in analyst'S life) onto patient
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
countertransference
hypnosis
Evidence-based treatment
48. 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
Unconditional positive regard
Gestalt Theory
Play therapy
Humanistic theory
49. Drugs that take away symptoms do not provide interpersonal support
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Will to meaning
Modeling
Hans Eysenck
50. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Humanistic theory
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)