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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
Antidepressants (+types)
Anima
Anxiolytics
Assertiveness training
2. To reduce feelings of inferiority and to foster social interest and social contribution in patients
goal of therapy (individual theory)
id
libido
Antipsychotics
3. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
Stress-inoculation training
catharsis/abreaction
Free association
4. Aaron Beck
countertransference
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
abnormal theory (psychoanalytic theory)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
5. Initially: Freud preferred a topographic model of mental life - Then: Mental life was structural - meaning that mental life has particular organization other than layers (ego - id - superego)
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6. Victor Frankl
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT)
existential theory (originator)
Compensation
7. 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)
Gestalt Theory
Pleasure principle
analytical theory
aggression
8. Jean Charcot and Pierre Janet
hypnosis
Cognitive Theory (originator)
libido
Antidepressants (+types)
9. 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'
Displacement
Arbitrary inference
Cognitive Theory
Humanistic theory
10. Shifting unacceptable feelings/actions to a less threatening recipient
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
Behavior theory
Displacement
existential theory
11. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action
Identification
Collective unconscious
Shaping
Gestalt Theory (originators)
12. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
Shaping
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
criticism (Behavior theory)
Will to meaning
13. Goal is to increase sense of being and meaningfulness - to alleviate neurotic anxiety
criticism (Behavior theory)
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
goal of therapy (existential theory)
hypnosis
14. 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)
id
Modeling
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
15. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Genuineness/congruence
neobehaviouralism
transference
16. Accusing others of having one'S own unacceptable feelings
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
Client-centered theory
Projection
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
17. Mistaking isolated incidents for the norm (e.g. 'no one will ever want to be with me')
Overgeneralization
Genuineness/congruence
Karen Horney
goal of therapy (individual theory)
18. Aim to affect neurotransmitters; commonly dopamine - serotonin - norepinephrine (monoamines)
Dreams
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
Magnifying/minimizing
19. Making too much or little of something (e.g. 'it was luck that I did well')
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Magnifying/minimizing
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Carl Gustav Jung
20. Memories that serve as representations of important childhood experiences
Third Force
Unconditional positive regard
Cognitive Theory
Screen memory
21. Patients react to the therapist like they react to their parents
Self
Displacement
transference
Personalizing
22. Tricyclic chemical structure; ex. amitriptyline (Elavil®)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Hierarchy of needs
existential theory
ruling-dominant type
23. Secondary process; guided by ego and responds to environment by delaying gratification
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Screen memory
Cognitive Theory
Reality principle
24. Uses operant principle of negative reinforcement to increase anxiety - anxiety-reaction created where there was none; usually to treat addiction and fetishes
Screen memory
Rationalization
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
Aversion therapy
25. 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
Undoing
criticism (Client-centered theory)
transference
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
26. Response to perceived one'S meaninglessness is neurosis or neurotic anxiety (as opposed to normal or justified anxiety)
Reality principle
Stress-inoculation training
abnormal theory (existential theory)
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
27. Not suited for low-functioning or disturbed clients
criticism (Gestalt Theory)
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Shaping
28. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people
criticism (analytical theory)
Personal unconscious
Karen Horney
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
29. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Hierarchy of needs
Compensation
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
30. 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 (criticisms)
therapy (existential theory)
individual theory
object relations therapy
31. Goal is for (e)ffective rational beliefs to replace previous self-defeating ones - then client'S thoughts - feelings - and behaviours can coexist
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Self
Unconditional positive regard
Antidepressants (+types)
32. Too mystical or spiritual
criticism (analytical theory)
Third Force
Melanie Klein
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
33. Abnormal behaviour is the result of learning and conditioning
Repression or denial
Compensation
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
transference
34. The part of mind that mediates between the environment and the pressures of the id and the superego
Persona
criticism (Behavior theory)
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
ego
35. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
Will to meaning
archetype
Pleasure principle
36. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy
Identification
socially useful type
Repression or denial
Harry Stack Sullivan
37. Model based on learning; application of classical and operant conditioning principles to human abnormal behavior - change maladaptive behaviour through new learning; radical behavioralism - neobehaviouralism
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Play therapy
Behavior theory
38. The life instinct - including sex and love
Cognitive triad
eros
id
Cognitive Theory (originator)
39. Therapist engages in a dialogue with client rather than leading toward a goal; client learns from dialogue - and together focus on here-and-now experience rather than talking about the past
psychoanalysis
Play therapy
Gestalt Theory (originators)
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
40. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective
Empathy
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Free association
socially useful type
41. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
Assertiveness training
behavior theory (originators)
criticism (Behavior theory)
Personalizing
42. 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
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Genuineness/congruence
abnormal theory (Psychopharmacology)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
43. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
Abraham Maslow
Systematic desensitization
Neo-Freudians
therapy (individual theory)
44. Stress-inoculation training
Donald Meichenbaum
Role playing
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
ruling-dominant type
45. 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 -
Hierarchy of needs
therapy (Client-centered theory)
Projection
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
46. Like cognitive and behaviour theory - considered too sterile and mechanistic
id
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
countertransference
Flooding or implosive therapy
47. Child clients; during play a child may convey emotions - situations - or disturbances conveyed might otherwise go unexpressed
Play therapy
abnormal theory (existential theory)
Third Force
abnormal theory (analytical theory)
48. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory
Animus
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
criticism (existential theory)
neobehaviouralism
49. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
Free association
Repression or denial
eros
Systematic desensitization
50. Donald Meichenbaum - prepares people for foreseeable stressors
Stress-inoculation training
criticism (analytical theory)
Anna Freud
Sublimation