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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology
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1. Use of medication to treat mental illness - do not cure but some are effective at alleviating symptoms; often used with therapy
Psychopharmacology
Harry Stack Sullivan
radical behavioralism
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
2. When the therapist uses the patient'S transference to help him/her resolve problems that were the result of previous relationship by correcting the emotional experience in the therapist-patient relationship
Melanie Klein
object relations therapy
Neo-Freudians
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
3. Albert Ellis
eros
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Behavior theory
4. Safe outlets for unconscious material and wish-fulfillment - valuable for analysts; manifest content provides information about latent content
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
Dreams
therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
individual theory
5. Treating symptoms rather than underlying problem
criticism (Behavior theory)
id
Shaping
eros
6. Person'S dark side - often projected onto others; devils and evil spirits in cultures
Stress-inoculation training
Shadow
Genuineness/congruence
neobehaviouralism
7. Emphasized culture and society over instinct; suggested neuroticism expressed as movement toward - against - and away from people
criticism (Client-centered theory)
Karen Horney
individual theory
Antidepressants (+types)
8. 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)
Donald Meichenbaum
Behavior theory
Empathy
9. The life instinct - including sex and love
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
eros
Behavior theory
Assertiveness training
10. Analytical theory - Freud'S student - broke from Freud because Freud place too much emphasis on the libido
Defense mechanism (+types)
Carl Gustav Jung
Free association
Genuineness/congruence
11. Client-centered therapist should speak and act genuinely - not maintain a professional reserve (feelings and experiences of the therapist should match)
Applied psychology
Genuineness/congruence
Defense mechanism (+types)
existential theory (originator)
12. Emphasizes conscious thought patterns (rather than emotions or behaviours) - interpretation of an experience rather than the experience itself; Beck Depression Inventory
avoiding type
Cognitive Theory
Abraham Maslow
Gestalt Theory (originators)
13. Unconscious material always looking for a way to discharge repressed emotion
Thanatos
catharsis/abreaction
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
goal of therapy (Cognitive Theory)
14. Uses operant conditioning to change behavior - reinforced for behaviors that come closer and closer to desired action
Shaping
Sublimation
Cognitive Theory (originator)
Therapy (Behavior theory)
15. Employs principles from cognitive and behavioral theory
Melanie Klein
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Defense mechanism (+types)
16. 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 -
Alfred Adler
Hierarchy of needs
Defense mechanism (+types)
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
17. Male elements of a female
Rational-Emotive Theory (originator)
Animus
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
3 components of model of mental life
18. 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
Conflict (psychoanalytic theory)
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
criticism (individual theory)
process of becoming
19. 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)
Carl Gustav Jung
analytical theory
Hierarchy of needs
Antimanics
20. Not allowing threatening material into awareness
hypnosis
Repression or denial
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
Systematic desensitization
21. Primary process; human motivation to seek pleasure and avoid pain; id
Pleasure principle
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
individual theory
22. 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®)
Genuineness/congruence
Abraham Maslow
id
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
23. Applied Freud ideas of child psychology and development
therapy (Cognitive Theory)
Anna Freud
Dichotomous thinking
Screen memory
24. Sexual force
libido
Karen Horney
Animus
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
25. Provides tools and experience that client can use to be more assertive
libido
Aversion therapy
Therapy (Behavior theory)
Assertiveness training
26. To change behaviour to be more desired or adaptive; successful in treating phobias - fetishes - OCD - sexual problems - and childhood disorders (especially nocturnal enuresis)
Applied psychology
Goal of therapy (Behavior theory)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Personal unconscious
27. Leader of humanistic movement; hierarchy of needs
criticism (existential theory)
Abraham Maslow
socially useful type
existential theory (originator)
28. Psychological tension created when (a)ctivating even occurs - and client has certain (b)eliefs about the event - leading to (c)onsequence of emotional disruption
goal of therapy (individual theory)
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Will to meaning
Abnormal theory (Rational-Emotive Theory)
29. Sanguine - high in activity and high in social contribution - healthy
socially useful type
goal of therapy (Gestalt Theory)
individual theory
Cognitive Theory (originator)
30. 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
ruling-dominant type
criticism (psychoanalytic theory)
personality typology (psychoanalytic theory)
31. 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)
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
criticism (Cognitive Theory)
behavior theory (originators)
object relations therapy
32. Ego - id - superego
3 components of model of mental life
Client-centered theory
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs)
Empathy
33. Conscious elements were openly acknowledged forces and unconscious elements (drives and wishes) were many layers below consciousness - Freud'S greatest contribution to psychology
Hierarchy of needs
radical behavioralism
Psychopharmacology (criticisms)
Topographic model of mental life
34. Client-centered therapist must appreciate rather than just observe client'S perspective
Cognitive Theory
Magnifying/minimizing
Empathy
Abraham Maslow
35. Goal is to increase sense of being and meaningfulness - to alleviate neurotic anxiety
goal of therapy (existential theory)
Psychopharmacology
Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)
existential theory (originator)
36. Embracing feelings or behaviours opposite to true threatening feelings one has
3 components of model of mental life
Reaction formation
Goal of therapy (psychoanalytic theory)
therapy (existential theory)
37. Drugs for bipolar disorder - mania appears to be from excessive monoamines; inhibit monoamines such as norepinephrine and serotonin (ex. Lithium)
Antimanics
Anxiolytics
Empathy
Shaping
38. Female elements of a man
therapy (Gestalt Theory)
Assertiveness training
Anima
therapy (Psychopharmacology)
39. 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
Thanatos
criticism (existential theory)
abnormal theory (individual theory)
Magnifying/minimizing
40. Karen Horney and Harry Stack Sullivan - accepted some of freud'S ideas and reject others
object-relations theory
Stress-inoculation training
Neo-Freudians
Changes in Freud'S psychoanalytic theory
41. 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
abnormal theory (existential theory)
superego
Cognitive Theory (originator)
goal of therapy (individual theory)
42. Drawing conclusion without solid evidence (e.g. 'Boss hates me because he never asks me to play golf')
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)
Anna Freud
goal of therapy (Rational-Emotive Theory)
Arbitrary inference
43. Maladaptive cognitions lead to abnormal behaviour or disturbed affect; cognitive triad - types of maladaptive cognitions: arbitrary inference - overgeneralization - magnifying/minimizing - personalizing - dichotomous thinking
ego
Humanistic theory
goal of therapy (Client-centered theory)
Abnormal theory (Cognitive Theory)
44. 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
criticism (Behavior theory)
id
Antabuse ®
therapy (Client-centered theory)
45. Freud; way in which ego protects self from threatening unconscious material; - repression/denial - rationalization - projection - displacement - reaction formation - compensation - sublimation - identification - undoing - countertransference - dreams
Self
Defense mechanism (+types)
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
abnormal theory (existential theory)
46. Uses social learning principles - exposes client to more adaptive behaviors
abnormal theory (Client-centered theory)
Displacement
Tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs)
Modeling
47. Use unconscious messages to become more aware and closer to full potential
goal of therapy (analytical theory)
Antipsychotics
abnormal theory (Gestalt Theory)
criticism (Rational-Emotive Theory)
48. Inappropriately taking responsibility (e.g. 'our failed project was all my fault')
Flooding or implosive therapy
Animus
therapy (analytical theory)
Personalizing
49. Skinner'S operant ideas that behaviour is related only to consequences
Abnormal theory (Behavior theory)
Antabuse ®
superego
radical behavioralism
50. Choleric -high in activity but low in social contribution - dominant
Reaction formation
Reality principle
ruling-dominant type
Topographic model of mental life