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Psych Study Guide Questions

A(n) _______________ is a persistent, unwanted thought.

Select one:
a. obsession
b. compulsion
c. hallucination
d. delusion

13. Match each method or concept with the therapy associated with it: (behavioral, Existential, Humanistic, or Cognitive Therapy)

a. systematic desensitization

b. facing the fear of death

c. reappraisal of thoughts

d. exposure to feared situation

e. unconditional positive regard

f. avoidance of “catastrophizing”

14. Which of the following symptoms of schizophrenia would NOT be relieved by antipsychotic drugs?

Select one:
a. emotional flatness
b. delusions
c. agitation
d. the duration of schizophrenic episodes

15. The _______________ school of therapy has, as one of its primary goals, modification of irrational or invalidated beliefs.

  

Select one:
a. behavioral
b. humanist
c. cognitive
d. psychoanalytic

16. Since the early 1900s, the mental-health world has alternated between viewing mental disorders as diseases that can be treated medically and as emotional problems that can be treated psychologically

Select one:
True
False

18. Rational-emotive behavior therapy emphasizes the client’s free will to change.

Select one:
True
False

19. If a person is prescribed lithium carbonate, it is most likely that she has been diagnosed as suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Select one:
True
False

20. A psychodynamic therapist would terminate therapy if a client reported that she had fallen in love with him.

Select one:
True
False

21. Sheldon is asked to report what he sees in an ambiguous picture. It is evident that Sheldon is being given:

Select one:
a. the MMPI
b. the Beck Depression Inventory.
c. the Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale.
d. the Rorschach Inkblot Test

25. The narcissistic personality disorder received its name due to its similarity to the Greek myth of Narcissus, a young man:

  

Select one:
a. who trembled with an irrational fear at the sound of thunder
b. who experienced half-insane tempests of emotion.
c. who felt pervasive and irrational jealousy
d. who fell in love with his own reflection

26. Psychologists consider the terms “abnormal behavior” and “mental disorder” to be synonyms.

Select one:
True
False

28. Insanity is a legal term that is used neither by psychologists nor by psychiatrists in research or diagnosis.

Select one:
True
False

29. Episodes of posttraumatic stress disorder may recur for months, years, or even decades.

Select one:
True
False

30. Although panic attacks seem to occur out of nowhere, they in fact usually occur in the aftermath of stress, prolonged emotion, specific worries, or frightening experiences

Select one:
True
False

31. Most suicides occur during an acute crisis, on impulse; after the person gets through the crisis, the desire to live returns.

Select one:
True
False

32. The biological model of drug/alcohol addiction emphasizes that addiction is due primarily to a person’s biochemistry, metabolism, and genetic predisposition.

Select one:
True
False

Answer 1

12)- An obsession is a persistent, unwanted thought. Obsession may be related with fear of contamination, aggressive impulses, sexual thoughts etc. If it increases then turns into the disorder.

13)- behavioral therapy- systematic desensitization, exposure to feared situation

Behavioral therapy- In this therapy patients are treated by the help of classical and operant theory. There are many forms of the behavioral therapy.

• Existential therapy- facing the fear of death

Existential therapy- It is a positive approach, in which the human capacity and aspirations are main target.

• Humanistic-  unconditional positive regard;

Humanistic therapy- In this form of therapy, self esteem and self acceptance are the main target for the treatment of the patient.

• Cognitive Therapy- reappraisal of thoughts, avoidance of “catastrophizing”

Cognitive Therapy- In this approach distorted thoughts and beliefs are main target of the therapy.

14)- Antipsychotic does not reduce the emotional flatness. Antipsychotic is mainly effective for positive symptoms such as, hallucinations and delusions. It also reduces the agitation in schizophrenic patient.

15)- The cognitive school of therapy has, as one of its primary goals, modification of irrational or invalidated beliefs. Cognitive school believes that distorted thought and distorted beliefs are main problem for the disorders, by modifying the distortions we can heal the patient.