Chapter 16

Front 1

________ is often experiential and has clients do real-life "experiments" to disprove the client's beliefs.

Back 1

Cognitive restructuring therapy

Front 2

The antimanic effects of lithium are believed to be achieved by:

Back 2

increasing the activity of serotonin.

Front 3

Which statement about psychoactive drug use in therapy is most true?

Back 3

Drugs can both cure some psychological disorders as we as control symptoms of others.

Front 4

Which biological treatment is supported by extensive evidence that it often produces rapid reduction of the symptoms of depression?

Back 4

Electroconvulsive therapy.

Front 5

Surgical lobotomies were performed in order to:

Back 5

produce a calming effect with violent patients.

Front 6

Pharmacoconvulsive therapy is:

Back 6

the use of drugs to induce seizurelike activity in the brain.

Front 7

The conflicts between the id, ego, and superego within the unconscious generate:

Back 7

anxiety.

Front 8

By ignoring misbehavior, a parent or teacher is using the ________ technique of behavior modification.

Back 8

extinction

Front 9

Operant conditioning therapies are sometimes called:

Back 9

behavior modification.

Front 10

The drug lithium is the most effective drug for controlling ________ symptoms of ________ disorder.

Back 10

manic; bipolar

Front 11

Amy is being given a drug called thorazine. Amy probably:

Back 11

has schizophrenia.

Front 12

Changes in the administration of ECT since it was first developed include:

Back 12

the administration of a muscle relaxant and a general anesthesia.

the administration of the electric current to one hemisphere.

Front 13

Joseph Wolpe's method for reducing fears by associating images of fear-evoking stimuli with deep muscle relaxation is known as:

Back 13

systematic desensitization.

Front 14

Which therapy technique can be helpful in both extinguishing maladjusted behaviors and for establishing new, more adaptive behaviors?

Back 14

Behavior.

Front 15

In psychoanalysis, a patient's unwillingness to freely describe some aspects of his or her life is referred to as

Back 15

resistance.

Front 16

According to psychoanalysis, ________ is an explanation to the client of the underlying meaning of their experience.

Back 16

interpretation

Front 17

Ellis's and Beck's therapy techniques are ________ therapies.

Back 17

cognitive

Front 18

Clozapine is a drug that shows some promise for treatment of schizophrenia. It has been classified as a/an:

Back 18

antipsychotic.

Front 19

If a male client viewed Freud as a father figure, or a competitor, Freud would describe this view as:

Back 19

transference.

Front 20

Any nonbiological, noninvasive psychological technique or procedure designed to improve a person's adjustment to life is called:

Back 20

psychotherapy.

Front 21

Jack is undergoing psychoactive drug therapy and is being given the drug called thorazine to calm and quiet him. In what category is the drug?:

Back 21

Antipsychotic.

Front 22

The three general classes of antidepressant drugs include:

Back 22

tricyclics, MAO inhibitors, and serotonin reuptake blockers.

Front 23

The benzodiapines are useful in the treatment of:

Back 23

Generalized anxiety.

panic disorders.

some sleep disorders.

Front 24

In psychotherapy, a process in which a patient relates to the therapist in much the same way as to another important person in his or her life (such as a parent) is:

Back 24

transference

Front 25

Dale has a phobia of hospitals. Which therapy would suggest he gain exposure gradually to the hospital until the anxiety is reduced?

Back 25

systematic desensitization

Front 26

When no attempt is made to alter body physiology or function during therapy, then it is called:

Back 26

noninvasive.

Front 27

Carol is periodically given a treatment in which electricity is momentarily passed through her brain. The procedure is called:

Back 27

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)

Front 28

Suggestions as to reasons why behavioral therapies appear to be the most successful form of therapy include all but

Back 28

the focus of the therapy is on specific disordered behaviors, thus it is easier to measure the success or failure.

target behaviors are monitored during the therapy, so if the technique is not as successful as desired, it can be altered midstream.

the therapy is based on a large amount of research data.

all of the above have been suggested.

Front 29

The goal of cognitive therapy is to change individuals' ________ and the method used is to change ________.

Back 29

maladaptive behaviors and feelings; thoughts

Front 30

In psychoanalysis, the act or process of venting repressed feelings that result in a temporary reduction of tension is called

Back 30

catharsis.

Front 31

One of the most perplexing questions about electroconvulsive therapy is:

Back 31

how it works.

Front 32

The biological therapy procedure in which a leucotome was inserted into the brain through an eye socket and rotated back and forth is called:

Back 32

a lobotomy.

Front 33

The first experimentation with psychosurgery as a treatment of behavioral disorders in humans was conducted by Almeida Lima. He performed the surgery on the ________ lobes of ________ patients.

Back 33

frontal; schizophrenic

Front 34

The central thesis of behavior therapy is that maladaptive behavior:

Back 34

has been learned and can be unlearned.

Front 35

A potentially serious side effect of antipsychotic drugs is the development of:

Back 35

tardive dyskinesia.

Front 36

Today, refined surgical procedures on brain structures are being used successfully on a limited basis with:

Back 36

obsessive-compulsive disorders

Front 37

In his surgical procedure on the brains of schizophrenic patients, Lima's goal was to:

Back 37

disconnect the thought processes from the emotional processes.

disconnect the frontal lobes from the thalamus.