Deck 10: Behavior Theory, the Cognitive Turn and the Influence of Mindfulness

Question 1

______ is a therapeutic model in which negative or unhelpful thinking is challenged as a means of changing emotions and behavior patterns.

A) DBT
B) CBT
C) ACT
D) RET

Answer 1

B

Question 2

______ can be defined a therapeutic model which examines problematic, learned behaviors and helps the client replace these behaviors with more adaptive behaviors.

A) DBT
B) CBT
C) ACT
D) RET

Answer 2

A

Question 3

______ is a sense of the importance of living in the present moment and reducing the judgments we experience both internally and as it relates to our environment.

A) Mindfulness
B) Meditation
C) Dialectics
D) Cognition

Answer 3

A

Question 4

______ is the structure or schema in which a person's mind intellectually develops and adapts to its environment and grows in its capacity for abstract thought and reasoning.

A) Mindfulness
B) Meditation
C) Dialectics
D) Cognition

Question 5

______ is a Western philosophy which postulates that truth, in any situation, lies between the opposing tensions experienced in that situation.

A) Mindfulness
B) Meditation
C) Dialectics
D) Cognition

Question 6

______ represents a range of practices that involve both physical and psychological activities designed to determine what is happening in an individual's mind at any given moment in time.

A) Mindfulness
B) Meditation
C) Dialectics
D) Cognition

Question 7

Which of the following is a second generation of behavior therapy?

A) cognitive therapy
B) S-R approaches
C) aversion therapy
D) exposure therapies

Question 8

______ is a form of learning in which behaviors are strengthened or weakened by altering the consequences that follow those behaviors.

A) Operant learning
B) Observational learning
C) Respondent learning
D) Cognitive learning

Question 9

______ involves individuals acquiring behaviors by observing other people which they then translate into social roles and behaviors.

A) Operant learning
B) Observational learning
C) Respondent learning
D) Cognitive learning

Question 10

Which of the following person is a cognitive theorist?

A) Pavlov
B) Watson
C) Skinner
D) Beck

Question 11

Respondent or classical conditioning (S-R) was largely developed by Watson and ______.

A) Beck
B) Ellis
C) Meichenbaum
D) Pavlov

Question 12

Behaviorism was a movement in psychology and philosophy first coined by ______.

A) Pavlov
B) Watson
C) Meichenbaum
D) Skinner

Question 13

Veterans may respond to loud noises by "running for cover." This is an example of ______.

A) classical conditioning
B) operent conditioning
C) stimulus conditioning
D) observational conditioning

Question 14

A child demonstrating good behaviors is rewarded with a candy. This is an example of ______.

A) operant conditioning
B) respondent conditioning
C) classical conditioning
D) observational conditioning

Question 15

Punishment is a key tool in ______.

A) operant conditioning
B) respondent conditioning
C) classical conditioning
D) observational conditioning

Question 16

Which of the following statements was associated with Skinner?

A) Introspective methods for examining inward human experiences and mental activity must be rejected.
B) Psychology's main goal is to understand, control and predict behavior through observation and measurement.
C) Psychology fails in attempting to conduct experimental research on the subjective experiences of human beings.
D) Rats can learn effectively if rewarded frequently and rats' behaviors could be shaped through the use of rewards.

Question 17

In late 1950s, whose work precipitated behavior theory's turn toward the impact of cognitive processes on behavior?

A) Ellis
B) Beck
C) Bandura
D) Chomsky

Question 18

A person may conquer a fear of flying by observing others who fly with little fear. This can be explained by ______.

A) classical conditioning
B) operent conditioning
C) social Learning
D) cognitive Restructuring

Question 19

Which of the following is an example of second generation of behavioral therapy?

A) Dialectical Behavior Therapy
B) Acceptance And Commitment Therapy
C) Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
D) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy

Question 20

The ______ generation of behavioral therapies stressed the importance of modeling or learning that occurs by observing behavior.

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth

Question 21

The ______ generation of behavioral therapies encouraged clients through acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies to acknowledge suffering or psychological discomfort as inevitable, NOT as obstacles to reaching personal goals.

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth

Question 22

The ______ generation of behavioral therapies addressed cognitive processing or thinking difficulties such as overgeneralizations and irrational thinking.

A) first
B) second
C) third
D) fourth

Question 23

Which of the following is true about mindfulness?

A) Mindfulness practice should lead to some sort of special experience or revelation.
B) Being mindful implies that one needs become a Buddhist or engage in cryptic activities.
C) Mindfulness is simply being aware of what the mind is thinking about in its wanderings.
D) A person practicing mindfulness will quickly experience a calm, controlled, conscious mind.

Question 24

How are behavior theories consistent with social work values?

A) Behavior theories acknowledge human beings' freedom or self-determination in creatively problem solving and in responding to their own unique needs.
B) Behavior theories are easily applied to the practice with diverse client populations based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation and sexual expression.
C) Behaviorally-oriented social workers view their use of behaviorist interventions with clients as demonstrating the greatest level of professional competence.
D) Behavioral approaches are often able to sustain treatment effects after treatment has ended and when clients return to live in their natural, social environments.

Question 25

______ demonstrate the strongest level of empirical evidence for the effectiveness of behavioral approaches to social work.

A) Quantitative studies
B) Qualitative studies
C) Practice wisdom
D) Clients' voices

Question 26

Skinner thought that inner processes were irrelevant to the prediction, control and experimental analysis of human behavior.

Question 27

Behaviorism, in its pure form, rejected the impact of cognitive activity on human behavior.

Question 28

Piaget's cognitive development theory is easily operationalized and directly addresses how events or experiences shape, regulate or alter human cognition and behavior.

Question 29

The Third-Generation Behavioral Therapies are consistent with Buddhist concepts such as clients' self-awareness and moment-to-moment acceptance of "what is."

Question 30

All behavior therapists engage in clinical strategies that support acceptance of the moment-to-moment reality of clients' experiences of suffering and other difficulties.

Question 31

Compare and contrast the third- and second-generation behavioral therapies.

Question 32

Explain what mindfulness is using the example of washing dishes.

Question 33

According to Hahn, how should mindfulness be practiced and cultivated?

Question 34

What is Kabat-Zinn's understanding of mindfulness?

Question 35

Are behavior theories holistic? Explain.