PSYC 1004 FINAL EXAM: GELLER QUESTIONS
Therapeutic alliance - Answers- mutual respect between therapist and client/patient,
you need to believe the person is there to help you; key to all forms of therapy
Types of therapy - Answers- MD
Phd
Psyd
Edd
MD - Answers- can prescribe medicine
Phd - Answers- clinical science that is based on research
Psyd - Answers- 4 years or longer; focused on practice, degree focused on practice
Edd - Answers- educators, work with students in school, but also do therapy
Insight therapy - Answers- thinking you into acting different; trying to help you gain
insights into reasons for things so that you can change your behavior
Behavior therapy - Answers- acting you into thinking differently; trying to change
behavior; change behavior --> change feeling
Freudian psychology - Answers- physiological problems come from tensions between
unconscious mind by forbidden impulses and threatening memories
Probing the unconscious: assuming there is a hidden meaning that you are not aware
of, which is below conscious level of thought
Dream analysis and interpretation: ways to analyze subconscious
Non-Freudian Psychodynamic Therapies - Answers- Self/Ego over Id: original focus
was on who you are rather than your urges, but Freudian suggests urges are more
important
Life over early experiences: focus on what is going on right now not what is in the past
Interpersonal over sexual/aggressive desires: focusing now more on relationships, less
on underlying sexual urges a person may or may not have
Humanistic Therapies - Answers- self concept and self esteem: believe mental
problems arise from low self esteem
Client centered: (Carl Rodgers); healthy psychological growth through self actualization
Reflection of feeling
Success factors: empathy, positive regard, genuineness, feedback)
Cognitive Therapies - Answers- therapies aimed at influencing people's thinking; how to
think; changing it from Erroneous to Rational thinking
, Behavior Therapies - Answers- based on principles of behavioral learning; types:
classical conditioning, operant conditioning, participant modeling
Counterconditioning (Classical Conditioning) - Answers- Mary C. Jones
Counter conditioned Peter to not be afraid by rabbits after pairing the rabbits with ice-
cream
Systematic Desensitization - Answers- Joseph Wolpe
Get to relax while thinking of what you are afraid of, while imagining it; substituting one
response such as fear, with another; made hierarchy of fears --> then teach individual
method of relaxing --> individual relaxes while imagining the fear in order to condition
them to associate the thing they are afraid of (scene or event) with relaxation --> the
thing they were scared of no longer induces anxiety
Exposure Therapy - Answers- exposing the person to the fear; in vivo exposure:
exposing the person to the actual thing they are afraid of; explosive therapy:
exaggerating the fear (imagining it is worse than it actually is); based on classical
conditioning; getting the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus you
get extinction (you scare someone but the stimulus does not occur = not scared)
Aversion therapy - Answers- therapy for when you want someone to stop doing
something so you get them to associate it with something bad; if you are addicted to
alcohol, or drugs, pairing it with an aversive stimuli helps stop the addiction
Types of Operant Conditioning - Answers- contingency management
Token economies
Contingency management - Answers- a connection between behavior and
consequence, changing behavior by altering consequences; set it up so that doing what
they want is contingent on them doing what you want them to do (example: a kid can
only play video games if they have been good in school)
Token economies - Answers- use a consequence for behavior; a system of contingency
management based on the systematic reinforcement of target behavior, the
reinforcement are symbols or "tokens" that can be exchanged for other reinforcers;
used in a group setting
Participant modeling - Answers- observational learning - shown a particular object
should not be feared; modeling the desired behavior; therapist demonstrates and
encourages client to imitate desired behavior
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