Question 1

By watching other group members engaged in public speaking, LuEllen was able to see how she too could be successful in this situation. This is one example of the observational learning technique of __________ .

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Question 2

The goal of psychoanalytic therapy is to make the unconscious conscious. List and briefly describe the six primary approaches used to accomplish this goal.

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Question 3

There is mixed evidence about the effectiveness of __________ therapy, which uses punishment to decrease the frequency of undesirable behaviours.

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Question 4

Treatments that integrate techniques and theories from more than one existing approach are considered __________ approaches.

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Question 5

If you're considering using a self-help book for a psychological problem, how could you use the principles of critical thinking emphasized in this course to evaluate whether the book will be useful?

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Question 6

If a clinicians wants to use __________ to treat a patient, then an institutional review board (IRB) must approve the request.

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Question 7

Sometimes people recover from a serious illness such as depression without receiving or seeking out any help from a therapist. This is known as __________ .

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Question 8

What is person-centred therapy? What three conditions must be satisfied by the therapist to ensure a positive outcome?

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Question 9

An ineffective therapy may appear to be helpful, even when it really is not, because the client believes that it will be effective. This sort of improvement is caused by the __________ .

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Question 10

For a patient with symptoms of depression, describe how each of the following therapeutic approaches would be used, using one or two sentences for each method: a) psychoanalysis, b) person-centred therapy, c) structural family therapy, d) rational-emotive behaviour therapy, and e) psychopharmacotherapy.

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Question 11

Ronnie lives in a group home for people with mental disabilities. His group home has a __________ , so Ronnie receives play money for cleaning his bedroom and other chores that he can later "spend" on treats or privileges.

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Question 12

Two of the more controversial forms of psychological interventions for psychological disorders are __________ and psychosurgery.

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Question 13

One reason that many therapies seem to provide equivalent effects is that all of those therapies have similar __________ factors like instilling hope, or creating a bond with a therapist.

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Question 14

What is the dodo bird verdict and how is it related to the effectiveness of different treatments?

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Question 15

Rational emotive therapy and stress inoculation therapy are both considered to be __________ therapies.

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Question 16

is the name given to the use of medications to treat or control psychological problems.

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Question 17

The statistical procedure called __________ is used to compare the results of multiple different scientific studies.

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Question 18

Describe both systematic desensitization and flooding, including how these are different with respect to a patient's anxiety hierarchy.

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Question 19

Devon is entering psychotherapy and is anxious about the experience. One particular worry he has is that he might end up with a therapist who uses ineffective techniques. How would you advise him on what to look for during his first few sessions? Include at least two pieces of information about effective therapists, and two about ineffective therapists.

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Question 20

Identify and discuss two similarities and two differences between the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and controlled drinking approaches to treating alcoholism.

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Quiz 16: Psychological and Biological Treatments