CBT
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In Loving Memory
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100

True or false. CBT is considered first wave behavioral approach?

False. Strict behavioral therapy was first wave.

100

Define "Psychology of Use."

While what people have is important, the use they make of what they have is far more critical.

100

In what year was, then known, Alfred Adler Institute established?

1952

100

True or False? Dr. Mosak was the longest serving Board Chair for Adler University.

True

100

What color reportedly causes the brain to release relaxing hormones?

Blue

200

Which two names are commonly associated with the founding of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy?

Albert Ellis and Aaron Beck

200

In what year was Adler born?

1870

200

What does the word "Psychology" mean in Greek?

Psyche = "breath, spirit, soul"

Logia = "study of"

200

What is the name of Dr. Mosak's wife?

Birdie
200

After how many days was the Stanford Prison experiment discontinued?

6 days (intended to be 14 days)

300

What is the most superficial level of thinking a person holds?

Automatic thoughts

300

Adler originally proposed the three life tasks of social, occupational/educational and love. What is one of the two additional life tasks suggested by Mosak and Maniacci?

Self and spiritual

300

Who founded and served as the APA's first president?

G. Stanley Hall

300

In what year did Dr. Mosak retire?

2015
300

What is Triskaidekaphobia?

Fear of the number 13

400

Name two cognitive distortions.

Selective abstraction, personalization, catastrophizing, dichotomous/polarized thinking/splitting, filtering, overgeneralizing, control fallacies, emotional reasoning ("I feel, therefore I am"), minimization and magnification

400

What term did Adler coin that refers to striving to be powerful or describes when one is trying to overcompensate for being "unmanly", both for men and women? In his later writings, this term was limited to women. 

Masculine protest

400

Where was the first experimental psychology lab opened in the US? 

John Hopkins University (Baltimore, Maryland)

400

On what occasion was our school library renamed in 2011?

Dr. Mosak's 90th birthday

400

What specific substance(s) is commonly attributed to contributing to van Gogh's mental instability?

Absinthe, turpentine and paint

500

What was Ellis often publically criticized for particularly when compared to Beck?

Not conducting rigorous testing (as stated in his obituary in The Guardian)

Weak tone, not offering any evidence to support his views on psychotherapy and suggesting simplistic solutions for severe depression (ex. "pull your socks up") 

500

In what year did Adler first use the term "Gemeinschaftsgefühl" (social interest) in his published writings? 

1919 in the Preface to the second edition of "The Neurotic Constitution"

500

Who was the first female to be elected as president of the APA in 1905?

Mary Whiton Calkins

500

What is Dr. Mosak's date of birth?

October 29, 1921

500

How many copies of "Interpretation of Dreams" did Freud initially sell?

700