Larger Behavior
Approaches
Disorders
Behaviors
Treatments
100
Virtual reality exposure therapy is most likely to prove effective in the treatment of these.
What are phobias?
100
Evidence suggests that these in the prenatal environment contribute to schizophrenia.
What are prenatal viral infections?
100
Psychological disorders characterized by inflexible, enduring, and socially maladaptive behavior patterns are called ___________ disorders.
What is personality?
100
Cognitive therapies have achieved especially favorable results in the treatment of this.
What is depression?
100
A ___________ approach to substance abuse would be most likely to emphasize the interactive influences of nature and nurture on substance abuse.
What is biopsychosocial?
200
Although Alice once scored 37 points during a single high school basketball game, she was subsequently unable to beat or match this record no matter how hard she tried. Her experience may be at least partially explained in terms of this.
What is regression toward the mean?
200
This type of therapist is most likely to suggest interpretive insights regarding patients' difficulties.
What is a psychodynamic therapist?
200
"Gradually developing" is to "suddenly developing" as ___________ schizophrenia is to ___________ schizophrenia.
What is chronic and acute?
200
During the manic phase of bipolar disorder, individuals are most likely to experience this.
What is high self esteem?
200
Replacing a negative response with a positive response is to systematic desensitization as replacing a positive response with a negative response is to ___________.
What is averse conditioning?
300
Bipolar disorder is classified as this type of disorder.
What is a mood disorder?
300
In one treatment for bed-wetting, the child sleeps on a liquid-sensitive pad that when wet, triggers an alarm and awakens the child. This treatment is a form of this.
What is behavior therapy?
300
A National Institute of Mental Health study compared three depression treatments: cognitive therapy, interpersonal therapy, and a standard drug therapy. Patients in ___________ improved more than those in a control group.
What is all of the groups?
300
Because it is so pervasive, ___________ is often considered "the common cold" of psychological disorders.
What is depression?
300
O.H. Mowrer trained children to discontinue bed-wetting by arranging for an alarm to sound each time they wet their beds. This technique best illustrates a therapeutic application of this.
What is classical conditioning?
400
Bobby, the owner of an auto service station, suddenly began smashing the front fenders and hoods of two customers' cars. When asked why, he excitedly explained that he was transforming the cars into "real racing machines." When an employee tried to restrain him, he shouted that everybody was fired and quickly began breaking the car windows. Bobby is exhibiting symptoms of this.
What is mania?
400
A therapist who takes this type of approach uses a variety of psychological theories and therapeutic approaches.
What is the eclectic approach?
400
Dopamine overactivity appears to be most closely related to these.
What is a hallucination?
400
During the 1940s and 1950s, lobotomies were most likely to be performed on psychologically disordered patients who were ___________.
What is uncontrollably violent?
400
Many self-help groups have emulated the use of ___________ by Alcoholics Anonymous.
What is the 12-step approach?
500
Cancer survivors who develop a fresh delight in their children and savor the joy of each new day best illustrate this.
What is post-traumatic growth?
500
In order to break the vicious cycle of depression, the social-cognitive perspective suggests that people should be encouraged to explain their failures in terms that are both ___________ and ___________.
What is external and temporary?
500
In this disorder, people alternate between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild overexcitement.
What is bipolar disorder?
500
There is some evidence that a relatively low level of autonomic nervous system arousal may contribute to this.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
500
This form of therapy has most directly contributed to the sharp reduction in the number of residents in U.S. mental hospitals.
What is drug therapy?
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