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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. 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 (Psychopharmacology)
Carl Gustav Jung
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
2. Justifying behaviour/feelings that cause guilt
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
object-relations theory
Karen Horney
Rationalization
3. Person'S outer mask - mediator to external world; masks in cultures
Persona
transference
Free association
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
4. Drawing conclusion without solid evidence (e.g. 'Boss hates me because he never asks me to play golf')
Arbitrary inference
Abraham Maslow
Karen Horney
hypnosis
5. Emphasizes conscious thought patterns (rather than emotions or behaviours) - interpretation of an experience rather than the experience itself; Beck Depression Inventory
Cognitive Theory
hypnosis
Family therapy
Psychodynamic theory
6. Excelling in one area to make up for shortcomings in another
therapy (analytical theory)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Compensation
Play therapy
7. Similar to behaviour therapy - addresses how a person thinks - rather than why the thought patterns developed; removing symptoms may not cure problem
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
process of becoming
Assertiveness training
Carl Gustav Jung
8. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
criticism (Behavior theory)
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Psychopharmacology
Cognitive Theory (originator)
9. abnormality derived from disturbances of awareness - client may not have insight or fully experience present situation (choosing not to acknowledge certain aspects)
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Pleasure principle
Unconditional positive regard
10. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
Karen Horney
superego
Anima
Anna Freud
11. Channelling threatening drives into acceptable outlets
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Sublimation
Cognitive Theory (originator)
abnormal theory (existential theory)
12. repressed drives and conflict become manifested in dysfunctional ways - psychic determinism
Shaping
archetype
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
13. Correct maladaptive cognitions
ego
Reaction formation
Reality principle
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
14. Proved experimentally that abnormal behaviour can be learned
Harry Stack Sullivan
Dreams
Neal Miller
Compensation
15. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
behavior theory (originators)
Changes in Freud'S view of layout of the mind
goal of therapy (individual theory)
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
Psychopharmacology
Displacement
existential theory
individual theory
17. Not suited for low-functioning or disturbed clients
Personalizing
Role playing
3 components of model of mental life
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
18. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
Dreams
Modeling
Compensation
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
19. 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®)
Donald Meichenbaum
Gestalt Theory (originators)
getting-learning type
Anxiolytics
20. Too mystical or spiritual
countertransference
Dichotomous thinking
criticism (analytical theory)
Persona
21. 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)
psychoanalytic theory
behavior theory (originators)
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Magnifying/minimizing
22. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
Repression or denial
Magnifying/minimizing
Antipsychotics
23. Aaron Beck
criticism (Client-centered theory)
radical behavioralism
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
24. psychodynamic approach - because unconscious elements are addressed - in order to be more aware - unconscious material is explored through analyzing dreams - artwork - personal symbols
Stress-inoculation training
Identification
Will to meaning
therapy (analytical theory)
25. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
hypnosis
radical behavioralism
Cognitive Theory
26. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
hypnosis
Anxiolytics
27. Analytical theory - Freud'S student - broke from Freud because Freud place too much emphasis on the libido
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Carl Gustav Jung
behavior theory (originators)
28. Female elements of a man
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Donald Meichenbaum
Neo-Freudians
Anima
29. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
Screen memory
criticism (individual theory)
Genuineness/congruence
30. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
transference
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
libido
31. The life instinct - including sex and love
Topographic model of mental life
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Rationalization
eros
32. Applies classical conditioning to relieve anxiety - repeatedly exposed to anxiety-producing stimulus so eventually the overexposure leads to lessened anxiety
Flooding or implosive therapy
Applied psychology
Gestalt Theory (originators)
Defense mechanism (+types)
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
getting-learning type
Client-centered theory
Defense mechanism (+types)
Antidepressants (+types)
34. Negative views about the self - the world - and the future; causes depression
Cognitive triad
libido
Monoamine oxidase inhibitors (MAOIs)
goal of therapy (existential theory)
35. Imitating a central figure - such as a parent
Personalizing
Identification
Modeling
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
36. Choleric -high in activity but low in social contribution - dominant
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
ruling-dominant type
Karen Horney
37. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
criticism (Behavior theory)
Projection
Play therapy
Personal unconscious
38. General term that refers to theories that emphasize role of unconscious (including individual or analytical)
Psychodynamic theory
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Antipsychotics
getting-learning type
39. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
Unconditional positive regard
Defense mechanism (+types)
40. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Antimanics
behavior theory (originators)
41. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
Defense mechanism (+types)
process of becoming
psychic determinism
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
42. 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
Gestalt Theory
archetype
Topographic model of mental life
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
43. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Reality principle
Harry Stack Sullivan
avoiding type
44. 'objects' relationships: real others and one'S internalized image of others;
Dichotomous thinking
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
object-relations theory
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
45. Allows client to practice new behaviours and responses
Role playing
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
criticism (analytical theory)
Neo-Freudians
46. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist
therapy (individual theory)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Psychopharmacology (goal of therapy)
catharsis/abreaction
47. Believed some emotional disturbances at least partly caused by biological factors
Antidepressants (+types)
therapy (analytical theory)
ego
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
48. Individual theory
archetype
Alfred Adler
Abraham Maslow
Pleasure principle
49. Full individual potential; Buddha - Jesus and mandala in cultures
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
Self
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Antipsychotics
50. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Identification
Play therapy
Collective unconscious