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1
Biomedical therapy:
A)is treatment in which a trained professional uses psychological techniques to help someone overcome psychological difficulties and disorders.
B)helps to resolve problems about living or personal growth.
C)relies on drugs and medical procedures to improve psychological functioning.
D)All of these.
2
_______________ therapists may draw from several perspectives simultaneously to address both the psychological and the biological aspects of a person's problems.
A)Psychoanalytic
B)Behavioral
C)Eclectic
D)Cognitive
3
_______________ is the technique where patients say aloud whatever comes to mind, regardless of its apparent irrelevance or senselessness.
A)Catharsis
B)Free association
C)Working through
D)Psychoanalysis
4
Nevva Dunnit had the same recurring dream several times a week. She dreamed she was riding in a car along a long mountain road. After a while, the road went into a tunnel. Nevva became petrified and started to scream. At this point she would wake up and then could not get back to sleep. Freud would say that riding in the car and going into the tunnel was the __________ content of the dream.
A)manifest
B)latent
C)true
D)unconscious
5
Nympho Mania thinks her therapist Dr. Studd Muffin is a real hunk. After several weeks she starts to feel a genuine attraction to him. In fact, she begins to feel toward him the same feelings that she has for her husband Italian Stallion. This shift of emotions from husband to therapist is known as:
A)sensitization.
B)catharsis.
C)resistance.
D)transference.
6
Behavior therapists assume that both abnormal behavior and normal behavior are learned. Thus, good behavior is maintained by ____________, and unwanted behavior can be eliminated by ____________.
A)transference; resistance
B)reinforcement; punishment
C)aversive conditioning; desensitization
D)ignoring it; contingency contracting
7
Seegar Stubb wants to quit smoking, so he goes to the Acme Stop Smoking Clinic. There they place electrodes on his fingers. Whenever he grabs for a cigarette, he gets an electrical current to his fingertips. This pairing is done a number of times. Eventually Seegar does not grab cigarettes to smoke This treatment is known as:
A)aversive conditioning.
B)systematic desensitization.
C)graded exposure.
D)flooding.
8
Fraidee Katt was bitten by Guido, a Maine Coon cat, when she was 5 years old. She has been very anxious around cats ever since. She now goes for therapy where she is confronted, without relaxation training, very gradually with a picture of a cat, then a video of a cat, then a cat in a cage, then a cat on a leash, and so on. This form of therapy is called:
A)systematic desensitization.
B)graded exposure.
C)flooding.
D)participant modeling.
9
_____________________ teaches behavior skills that help people behave more effectively and keep their emotions in check.
A)Dialectical behavior therapy
B)Cognitive-behavioral approach
C)Rational emotive behavior therapy
D)None of these.
10
A form of cognitive therapy developed by Beck aims to change people's illogical thoughts about themselves and the world. It is called:
A)Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy.
B)Cognitive Therapy.
C)Cognitive Appraisal.
D)Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment.







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