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5 Written Questions
5 Matching Questions
- electroconvulsive therapy
- evidence based practice
- unconditional positive regard
- systematic desensitization
- interpretation
- a a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. commonly used to treat phobias
- b a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized paitentre
- c in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight
- d a caring accepting, non judgmental attitude which carl rogers believed would help clients to deveglop self-awarness and self acceptance
- e clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
5 Multiple Choice Questions
- operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats.
- a variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defense
- a behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; includes exposure to therapies and aversive conditioning.
- a now-are psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
- therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences and that seeks to enhance self-sight
5 True/False Questions
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psychopharmacology → the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
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psychosurgery → surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
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antidepressant drugs → drugs used to treat depression, also increasingly prescribed for anxiety. Different types work for altering the availability of various neurotransmitters
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family therapy → treatment involving psychological techniques; consist of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
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biomedical therapy → therapy that treats the family as a system. views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members
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