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- A. Client centered
- B. Self-actual
- C. Transcendenta
- D. Cognitive
Explanation: Rogers developed client-centered, or person-centered, therapy, which emphasizes empathy, genuineness, and unconditional positive regard.
Correct answer: Client centered- A. Expose unhealthy emotions
- B. Interpret childhood events
- C. Reinforce positive behavior
- D. Change false beliefs
Explanation: Cognitive therapies target distorted or false beliefs because these beliefs contribute to unhealthy emotions and behavior.
Correct answer: Change false beliefs- A. Participant modeling
- B. Counter transference
- C. Hypnotic suggestion
- D. Systematic desensitization
Explanation: Bandura applied observational learning through participant modeling, in which the client observes and then performs the desired behavior…
Correct answer: Participant modeling- A. Exposure therapies
- B. Systematic desensitization
- C. Dream analysis
- D. Aversion therapy
Explanation: Dream analysis is a psychoanalytic technique used to explore unconscious conflicts.
Correct answer: Dream analysis- A. biomedical therapist.
- B. psychoanalyst.
- C. family therapist.
- D. cognitive therapist.
Explanation: A family therapist examines how family interactions may contribute to or maintain an individual's addiction.
Correct answer: family therapist.- A. behavior and drug therapies
- B. psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy
- C. psychoanalysis and drug therapies
- D. cognitive and psychoanalytic therapies
Explanation: Behavior and drug therapies generally aim to reduce specific symptoms or maladaptive behaviors rather than restructure the whole…
Correct answer: behavior and drug therapies- A. the double-blind technique
- B. aversive conditioning
- C. eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
- D. virtual reality exposure therapyTry Prep Courses
Explanation: Virtual reality exposure therapy recreates flying situations in a controlled setting, allowing gradual practice without immediately…
Correct answer: virtual reality exposure therapyTry Prep Courses- A. progressive relexation
- B. unconditional positive regard.
- C. transference.
- D. aversive conditioning.Discover Lesson Plans
Explanation: Systematic desensitization gradually exposes a person to feared situations while keeping them relaxed, usually through progressive muscle…
Correct answer: progressive relexation- A. clinical psychologist
- B. research psychologist
- C. school psychologist
- D. counselling psychologist
Explanation: Clinical psychologists assess and treat serious mental disorders, often working with more severe psychopathology than counselling or…
Correct answer: clinical psychologist- A. a dissociative disorder
- B. depression
- C. an anxiety disorder
- D. schizophreniaBook Therapy Sessions
Explanation: MAO inhibitors are antidepressant medications, so their most likely target here is depression.
Correct answer: depression- A. electic
- B. psychoanalytic
- C. cognitive
- D. behaviorTake Psychology Courses
Explanation: The therapist challenges an irrational conclusion by examining the client's faulty thinking and overgeneralisation, which is…
Correct answer: cognitive- A. Biochemical imbalance
- B. Genetic predisposition
- C. Familial transmission
- D. Brain defects
- E. All of the above
Explanation: Biological explanations can include biochemical imbalance, inherited vulnerability, familial or genetic transmission, and abnormalities in…
Correct answer: All of the above- A. Diathesis-stress model
- B. Attachment model
- C. Psychodynamic model
- D. Cognitive-behavioral model
Explanation: The diathesis-stress model explains disorder as an interaction between a vulnerability or predisposition and stressful environmental…
Correct answer: Diathesis-stress model- A. 1 & 4
- B. 1 & 3
- C. 2 & 3
- D. 2 & 4
Explanation: The model proposes that an underlying vulnerability interacts with a stressor to produce symptoms, so statements 1 and 3 describe its…
Correct answer: 1 & 3- A. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something normal, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something usual.
- B. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of some thing normal, the absence of something usual.
- C. Negative symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and positive symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.
- D. Positive symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and negative symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.
Explanation: Positive symptoms add unusual experiences or behaviours, such as hallucinations and delusions, whereas negative symptoms reflect the loss…
Correct answer: Positive symptoms indicate the presence of something unusual, and negative symptoms indicate the absence of something normal.416. Which of the following types of factors has been found to be the most likely cause of schizophrenia?
- A. Social factors.
- B. Genetic factors.
- C. psychological factors.
- D. Environmental factors.
Explanation: Schizophrenia has multiple biological, psychological, and environmental influences, but genetic vulnerability is the strongest established…
Correct answer: Genetic factors.- A. Depression
- B. Substance abuse
- C. Stressful events
- D. Social support
Explanation: Depression, substance abuse, and severely stressful events can increase suicide risk.
Correct answer: Social support- A. Depression
- B. Schizophrenia
- C. Obsessive-compulsive disorder
- D. Eating disorders
Explanation: Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized or bizarre language, and inappropriate affect are classic psychotic symptoms associated with…
Correct answer: Schizophrenia- A. 1 & 2
- B. 3 & 4
- C. 2 & 3
- D. 1 & 4
Explanation: Loss of interest or pleasure and changes in appetite are common symptoms of major depressive disorder.
Correct answer: 2 & 3- A. Most people with major depressive disorder experience only isolated episodes or depression.
- B. Depression is a disorder of adulthood and does not affect children.
- C. Major depressive disorder follow a recurrent course.
- D. Early onset of major depressive disorder a better course of depression over time.
Explanation: Major depressive disorder commonly follows a recurrent course, with episodes returning after periods of improvement.
Correct answer: Major depressive disorder follow a recurrent course.