Ch17 Myers Psychology

1. Classical psychoanalysts were especially interested in:

a. encouraging clients to carefully observe the consequences of their maladaptive behaviors

b. minimizing the possibility that clients would experience anxiety during therapy.

c. discouraging clients from using antianxiety or antidepressant drugs.

d. establishing an empathic and personal emotional relationship with clients.

e. interpreting the meaning of clients' resistance to therapeutic procedures.

2. While focusing on several intrusive thoughts that had been bothering her recently, Jenny was instructed by

her therapist to report any ideas or memories stimulated by these thoughts. Jenny's therapist was making use of a technique known as:

a. aversive conditioning.           b. active listening.                     c. free association.

d. systematic desensitization.                            e. transference.

3. Who emphasized the importance of active listening in the process of psychotherapy?

a. Mary Cover Jones                b. Carl Rogers              c. Sigmund Freud

d. Hans Eysenck                       e. Joseph Wolpe

4. A therapist helps Rebecca overcome her fear of water by getting her to swim in the family's backyard pool

 3 times a day for two consecutive weeks. The therapist's approach to helping Rebecca best illustrates:

a. stress inoculation training.                  b. free association.                    c. aversive conditioning.

d. exposure therapy.                             e. humanistic therapy.

5. Systematic desensitization is a form of:

a. aversive conditioning.                        b. exposure therapy.                 c. psychosurgery.

d. eclectic therapy.                                e. electroconvulsive therapy.

6. In a residential treatment facility for troubled youth, adolescent children receive large colored buttons when

they hang up their clothes, make their beds, and come to meals on time. The children return the buttons to staff members in order to receive bedtime snacks or watch TV. This best illustrates an application of:

a. stress inoculation training.                              b. humanistic therapy.               c. systematic desensitization.

d. operant conditioning.                         e. virtual reality exposure therapy.

7. Cognitive therapists are most likely to:

a. focus special attention on clients' positive and negative feelings about their therapists.

b. employ personality tests to accurately diagnose their clients' difficulties.

c. emphasize the importance of clients' personal interpretations of life events.

d. systematically associate clients' undesirable behaviors with unpleasant experiences.

e. prescribe antipsychotic drugs for the treatment of phobias.

8. Several years after his wife's death, Mr. Sanchez remains incapacitated by feelings of sadness. In order to

reduce Mr. Sanchez's depression, a therapist is actively encouraging him to stop blaming himself for not being able to prevent it. The therapist's approach is most representative of:

a. therapeutic touch.                  b. systematic desensitization.                             c. psychoanalysis.

d. cognitive therapy.                  e. client-centered therapy.

9. Which form of therapy is most likely to serve as a preventive mental health strategy?

a. psychoanalysis                      b. systematic desensitization                  c. virtual reality exposure therapy

d. psychosurgery                      e. family therapy

10. When people's symptoms of psychological distress are at their worst, whatever they do to try to alleviate the

condition is likely to be followed by improvement rather than further deterioration. This is best explained in terms of:

a. systematic desensitization.                 b. psychopharmacology.                       c. counterconditoning.

d. regression toward the mean.              e. virtual reality exposure therapy.

11. The effectiveness of psychotherapy shows little if any connection to:

a. the level of training and experience of the therapist.

b. the length of time a client has experienced symptoms of disorder prior to therapy.

c. the particular disorder experienced by a client.

d. the extent to which the process depends on changing clients' personalities.

12. Because she mistakenly believes that a new herbal remedy will help her lose weight, Mrs. Redding has

 begun feeling a considerable reduction in her appetite. This best illustrates:

a. virtual reality exposure therapy.                     b. systematic desensitization.     c. stress inoculation training.
d. the placebo effect.                                        e. meta-analysis.

13. The double-blind technique is most likely to be used in evaluating the effectiveness of:

a. cognitive therapies.                b. behavior therapies.                            c. humanistic therapies.

d. psychodynamic therapies.                 e. drug therapies.

14. Which of the following individuals is most likely to benefit from lithium?

a. Olivia, who experiences delusions and auditory hallucinations

b. Landon, who experiences a generalized sense of apprehension and anxiety

c. Miranda, who experiences periods of extreme sadness followed by episodes of optimistic

 overexcitement

d. Ivan, who experiences sudden brief episodes of intense dread and panic

e. Juan, who experiences a persistently depressed mood and low energy level

15. Which of the following is least likely to be effective in the treatment of depression?

a. EMDR         b. ECT             c. SSRIs           d. rTMS           e. SDHS