Chapter 15
Rick Parker
Mississippi College
October 14, 2010
Psy 201G
Questions
Insight Therapies- Psychologist attempts to gain insight into a patients’ thoughts, emotions,
motives, behavior, and coping mechanisms.
Psychotherapies attempt to uncover _______________ experiences, repressed in the
unconscious.
_________________ is a psychoanalytic technique used where patients reveal whatever
thoughts, feelings, and/or images come to mind, no matter how trivial, embarrassing, or terrible
they may seem.
_____________ is the psychoanalytic technique in which patients reveal dreams to a
psychoanalytic therapist in order for the therapist to interpret; sometimes the dreams are
represented in symbols.
_____________ is the process of psychoanalysis in which the patient uses the therapist as a
substitute for a parent; the patient relives troubling experiences from the past using the therapist
as a substitute for his/her mother or father.
________________ therapy has proven successful in treating depression.
Carl Rogers was known for ________________ therapy; people are naturally good and will
grow toward self-actualization. Rogers advocated unconditional positive self-regard.
_______________ therapy allows clients to become more fully integrated and seeing himself or
herself as a whole. Clients are directed by the therapist to self-accept themselves and take
responsibility for their behavior rather than blaming others.
Gestalt therapy utilizes the _____________ chair technique.
________________ is a form of therapy in which several clients (7-10) meet with a therapist or
therapists to discuss personal problems.
Group therapy is very beneficial in drug/alcohol treatment and decreasing ___________
_____________ and _____________ among prisoners.
Alcoholics Anonymous is a kind of _________________ group.
According to __________ therapy, abnormal behavior is learned.
___________ modification’s goal is to change troublesome behavior of an individual.
_____________ is a behavior modification technique based on a child being removed from an
environment if they perform undesirable behaviors.
_____________ is a type of classical conditioning therapy where clients are exposed to a gradual
series of anxiety provoking stimuli as they are trained with muscle relaxation therapy.
_____________ is a type of classical conditioning therapy in which clients are exposed to a
feared object or event for an extended period of time until anxiety decreases.
____________ and _______________ prevention involves exposing patients to objects or
situations they have been avoiding and patients agree to resist performing these rituals for
progressive longer periods of time.
______________ therapy is used to stop a socially undesirable behavior by pairing it with a
sickening or otherwise aversive stimulus.
____________________ therapy consists of a client who watches a model overcome fear or
phobia.
According to _____________ _____________ behavior therapy, irrational beliefs cause
emotions themselves. The activating event has nothing to do with it.
According to __________ ____________ therapy, much of misery can be traced to unreasonable
and unquestionable ideas that rule a person’s life. (“To be happy, I must be liked by everyone.”)
________________ drugs are used to treat hallucinations and delusions.
________________ drug is used to treat bipolar, especially mania.
Librium, Valium, and Xanax are used to treat_____________.
Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft are used to treat ___________ mood and anxiety.