Name Game
Applications
Pavlov: Rings a Bell?
100

According to William Glasser, these are the five essential human needs.

What are belonging, power/achievement, fun/enjoyment, freedom/independence, and Survival?

100

A client who was initially afraid of peaches and is now afraid of all stone fruits exemplifies this classical conditioning experience.

What is stimulus generalization?

100

This behavioral technique involves putting yourself into the types of situations you’re trying to overcome. 

What is Exposure Therapy?

200

These are types of cognitive distortions (name four).

What are disqualifying the positive, catastrophizing, all or nothing thinking, magical thinking, overgeneralization, personalization, jumping to conclusions, mind reading, fortune telling, shoulds, emotional reasoning, etc.?

200

A client who is miserable because all they do is work might be lacking in this basic human need.

What is fun?

200

The difference between this concept and a schema is that a schema typically includes guidelines for future functioning.

What is a core belief?
300

This theorist was against prescribing medication, believing mental illness was a coping strategy for lack of quality relationships to fulfill essential needs. 

Who is William Glasser?

300

Before I have breakfast and check my email, I try to play the drums. Glasser might describe this as a 

What is a positive addiction?

300

This term refers to increasing behavior by removing something unpleasant.

Negative Reinforcement

400

These are the names for the ABCDEFs of REBT.

What are activating event (adversity), belief, consequence, dispute, new effective outcomes, new feeling?

400

A technique where therapists teach clients how to relax the muscles throughout their bodies

What is Progressive Muscle Relaxation?

400

In cognitive behavioral theory, these types of thoughts emerge spontaneously and unintentionally after being filtered through distorted belief systems.

What are Automatic Thoughts?

500

William Glasser's name for thinking, feeling, acting, and physiology.

What is Total Behavior?

500

This technique involves the practice of nonjudgmental observation, description, and participation in a given moment of the client’s life. The skill helps clients feel more centered and be present in the moment rather than worrying about the past or the future.

What is mindfulness?

500

Albert Ellis believed this popular psychological concept is inauthentic, instead preferring self-acceptance.

What is Self-Esteem?