Guided Notes for Theory
Psychology
These will be all the notes you will need to keep for the final
1. Psychotherapy:
2. Biomedical therapy uses drugs or other procedures that act on the patient’s
nervous system, treating his or her psychological disorders.
3. An ____________________________ uses various forms of _________________ techniques
depending upon the client’s ____________________ __________________________.
4. Psychological Therapies
a.
b.
c. Behavioral theory
d.
5. Psychoanalysis Aims: The Aim of psychoanalysis is to bring ___________________
feeling into _______________________ awareness where the patient can deal with
them.
6. Methods: During free association, the patient edits his thoughts, resisting his or
her ___________________ to express ________________________. Such
____________________________ becomes important in the ________________ of conflictdriven anxiety. Eventually the patient opens up and reveals his or her
___________________________ private thoughts, developing __________________________ or
____________________________ feeling (transference) towards the therapist.
7. Humanistic therapist:
8. Humanistic therapies focus on:
a. The past and present, more than the past.
b. __________________________, rather than unconscious feeling.
c. Taking immediate _________________________________ for one’s feeling and
______________________, rather than uncovering hidden
___________________________.
d. Promoting _________________, rather than curing _____________________
9. Behavior Therapy: Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of
unwanted behavior.
10. Cognitive Psychology: Studies in cognitive psychology explores different areas
a. How we develop concepts
b.
c. How we make decisions
d.
11. Cognitive Therapy: teaches people ______________________ ways of thinking and
___________________ based on the assumption that thoughts
_____________________________ between events and our emotional
_______________________.
12. Cognitive-behavior therapy aims to:
13. Is Psychotherapy Effective? It is difficult to gauge the effectiveness of
psychotherapy because there are different levels upon which its effectiveness
can be measured.
a.
b. Does the therapist feel the patient has improved?
c.
14. Commonalities among psychotherapies:
a. A hope for ____________________________ people.
b.
c. An empathic, trusting and _________________ relationship.
15. The Biomedical Therapies include ______________________, ___________________________
and other forms of ____________________________ therapies.
a. Drug Therapies
b. Brain Stimulation
c. Psychosurgery
16. Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used for severely _________________________
patients who do no respond to drugs. The patient is ______________________________
and given a muscle ________________________. Patients usually get a
__________________________ shock that relieves them of depression.
17. Psychosurgery is used: