Question 1

Sharon describes to her therapist how she becomes so angry and impatient with her coworkers that she would just like to throw them out the window.Her therapist nods and says calmly,"Sometimes you feel so overwhelmed with anger." This therapist is most likely which type of psychotherapist?

Accepted Answer

A)  psychoanalytic
B)  client-centered
C)  cognitive
D)  behavioralE) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 2

Therapies that tend to focus on issues of death,freedom,isolation,and meaninglessness would be classified as
__________ therapies.

Accepted Answer

The answer of Therapies that tend to focus on issues...

Question 3

Isabelle acts as if her therapist is an important person from her past.By doing this,Isabelle will be able to re- experience her repressed emotions with her therapist helping her to recognize and understand these emotions. Freud called this process

Accepted Answer

A)  therapeutic attachment.
B)  reciprocal inhibition.
C)  systematic desensitization.
D)  transference.E) C) and D)
F) A) and C)

Question 4

Psychologists who try to directly change thinking patterns that lead to troublesome emotions or behaviors are the __________ therapists.

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive
B)  behavioral
C)  psychodynamic
D)  humanisticE) A) and D)
F) None of the above

Question 5

Both client-centered therapy and existential therapy

Accepted Answer

A)  focus on problems of death,freedom,isolation,and meaninglessness.
B)  promote self-knowledge.
C)  believe that one can choose to become the person you want to be.
D)  seek to uncover one's "true self" hidden behind a screen of defenses.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 6

According to Freud,when a client suddenly begins to whine and argue and treat the therapist like he does his mother,this illustrates the process of resistance.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 7

Jenny,a 19­year­old college student,is playing online blackjack and tells her friends that she just "gets a feeling" and bets accordingly,and so far she has won.Since her hunches have been really on target lately,she plans to bet a little more money.Jenny is exhibiting which of the cognitive distortions that lead to a gambling addiction?

Accepted Answer

A)  luck as a trait
B)  the gambler's fallacy
C)  overinterpretation of cues
D)  selective memoryE) None of the above
F) A) and D)

Question 8

According to Aaron Beck,depressed persons see themselves,the world,and the future in negative terms because of

Accepted Answer

A)  major distortions in thinking.
B)  learned helplessness.
C)  repressed anger.
D)  conditions of worth.E) A) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 9

Traditional psychoanalysis required a long time and considerable effort,which resulted in

Accepted Answer

A)  drugs being given in conjunction with free association in order to speed up the therapeutic process.
B)  longer remissions and fewer relapses among patients.
C)  the development of newer,more streamlined psychodynamic therapies.
D)  all of these occurring.E) B) and D)
F) B) and C)

Question 10

Lee Ann's therapist asks her to exaggerate vague feelings she has until they become clear.By expressing such feelings,Lee Ann's therapist believes that this will allow her to "take care of unfinished business" and break through emotional impasses.Lee Ann's therapist is most likely a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)  existential therapist.
B)  Gestalt therapist.
C)  psychoanalyst.
D)  client-centered therapist.E) A) and B)
F) A) and C)

Question 11

Which type of talk-oriented therapy is nondirective and is based on insights from conscious thoughts and feelings?

Accepted Answer

A)  cognitive therapy
B)  traditional psychoanalysis
C)  client-centered therapy
D)  behavior therapyE) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 12

Which therapist emphasized that emotional health comes from knowing what you want to do and not dwelling on what you should do,ought to do,or should want to do?

Accepted Answer

A)  Sigmund Freud
B)  Victor Frankl
C)  Fritz Perls
D)  Abraham MaslowE) All of the above
F) None of the above

Question 13

The Buddhists' state of "radical acceptance" is similar to the view that the client must fully accept the challenge of making the courageous choices needed to change his or her life that is advocated by

Accepted Answer

A)  psychoanalysts.
B)  existential therapists.
C)  cognitive therapists.
D)  behavioral therapists.E) None of the above
F) All of the above

Question 14

Which group of therapists believes that perception (awareness) becomes disjointed and incomplete in a maladjusted person?

Accepted Answer

A)  behaviorists
B)  existential therapists
C)  Gestalt therapists
D)  psychoanalystsE) A) and C)
F) A) and B)

Question 15

Unlike psychodynamic and humanistic therapies,cognitive therapies usually try to

Accepted Answer

A)  uncover one's "true self" hidden behind a screen of defenses.
B)  help the client find purpose and meaningfulness in his or her life.
C)  expand the client's self-awareness and rebuild thinking,feeling,and acting into connected wholes.
D)  directly change what the client thinks,believes,and feels,and,as a consequence,how he or she acts.E) A) and B)
F) All of the above

Question 16

Although Michael's mother had planned to take seven-year-old Michael to a specialist to be evaluated for his hyperactivity,his hyperactivity has decreased so much in the last several weeks that she cancelled the appointment. Michael's improvement would be an example of

Accepted Answer

A)  reciprocal inhibition.
B)  systematic desensitization.
C)  transference.
D)  a spontaneous remission.E) B) and C)
F) B) and D)

Question 17

Although Micah made a good grade on her psychology test,received a pay raise at her part-time job,and had her car repaired for very little money,she dwells on the rebuff of a friend.According to Aaron Beck,Micah is illustrating the cognitive distortion known as _______.

Accepted Answer

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Question 18

Although Michelle passed her psychology test,received a pay raise,and successfully repaired her bike today,she dwells on the rebuff of a friend.A cognitive therapist would refer to this as

Accepted Answer

A)  obsessive behavior.
B)  selective perception.
C)  all-or-nothing thinking.
D)  overgeneralization.E) B) and C)
F) All of the above

Question 19

If you seek counseling from a cognitive behavior therapist,you would expect him or her to

Accepted Answer

A)  provide aversive conditioning to produce bad habits.
B)  provide a non-threatening setting for the expression of unconscious thoughts.
C)  help you to change inappropriate patterns of thought.
D)  overcome fixations that occurred at earlier stages of development.E) B) and D)
F) A) and B)

Question 20

In psychoanalysis,resistance was thought by Freud to be important because it

Accepted Answer

A)  revealed important unconscious conflicts.
B)  indicated learned helplessness.
C)  aided in transference.
D)  helped to reveal the patient's illogical thoughts and irrational beliefs.E) B) and C)
F) A) and B)

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Isabelle acts as if her therapist is an important person from her past.By doing this,Isabelle will be able to re- experience her repressed emotions with her therapist helping her to recognize and understand these emotions. Freud called this process

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Sharon describes to her therapist how she becomes so angry and impatient with her coworkers that she would just like to throw them out the window.Her therapist nods and says calmly,"Sometimes you feel so overwhelmed with anger." This therapist is most likely which type of psychotherapist?

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In psychoanalysis,resistance was thought by Freud to be important because it

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The Buddhists' state of "radical acceptance" is similar to the view that the client must fully accept the challenge of making the courageous choices needed to change his or her life that is advocated by

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Both client-centered therapy and existential therapy

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Therapies that tend to focus on issues of death,freedom,isolation,and meaninglessness would be classified as __________ therapies.

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Psychologists who try to directly change thinking patterns that lead to troublesome emotions or behaviors are the __________ therapists.

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Although Michael's mother had planned to take seven-year-old Michael to a specialist to be evaluated for his hyperactivity,his hyperactivity has decreased so much in the last several weeks that she cancelled the appointment. Michael's improvement would be an example of

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