The first verson of psychological therapy (not practiced today).
What is psychoanalysis
100
this approach to therapy uses the work of Pavlov and Skinner to eliminate unwanted behavior
What is behavioral therapy
100
drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder
What is antipsychotic drugs
100
repetitive, involuntary movements of jaw, tongue, face, and mouth resulting from the extended use of traditional antipsychotic drugs
What is tardive dyskinesia
100
a psychotherapeutic technique in which the client takes one image or idea from a dream and says whatevercomes to mind, regardless of how threatening, disgusting, or troubling it may be.
What is free association
200
treatment consisting of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth
What is psychotherapy
200
a type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relazed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli.
What is systematic desensitization
200
a biomedical therapy for severly depressed patients inwhich a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient.
What is Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
200
an extreme form of in vivo exposure in which the client experiences extreme exposure to the phobic object.
What is flooding
200
The difference between psychoanalytic and psychdynamic approaches.
Psychoanalytic is based on Frued's original work and psychodynamic is aimed at uncovering unconscious motives
300
A current iteration of Freud's therapy that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences.
What is psychodynamic therapy
300
therapy that teaches people new,more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
What is cognitive therapy
300
a now-rare psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollable emotional or violent patients. the procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain
What is lobotomy
300
the finding that most forms of therapy are effective and few significant differences exist in effectiveness
What is the dodo bird verdict
300
Although Paul seems bright and capable to his parents and friends, he has been failing in school. Paul agress to speak with a psychologist, who suggeststhathis problems stem from internal processes such as unrealistic expectations and negative thinking. The psychologist's view is typical of which of the following models of behavior?
What is cognitive
400
Carl Rogers developed this widely used technique as a part of humanistic therapy
What is client-centered therapy
400
Clinical decision making that integrates the best available research with clinical expertise and patient characteristics and preferences
What is evidence-based practice
400
Xanax, which depress central nervous system activity, is often used as ongoing treatment and can lead to deprendency. These drugs are referred to as ______ drugs.
What is antianxiety drugs
400
It has been suggested that an excess of D2 receptors results in the positive symptoms of schizophrenia. This is called the
What is dopamine hypothesis
400
A man who experiences sudden blindness on witnessing the death of his wife is probably suffering from a
What is conversion disorder
500
These two techniques are utilized in humanistic therapies to encourage client self-awareness.
What are unconditional positive regard and active listening
500
the study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior
What is psychopharmacology
500
drugs prescribed primarily for depression and some anxiety disorders that work by making more serotonin available in the synapse.
What is SSRIs
500
How does medication work to help treat schizophrenia (at the synaptic level)?
They work by blocking the the D2 receptor sites in the brain to prevent excess binding of dopamine
500
The thalamus processes all sensory information except