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Cognitive therapists would be most likely to encourage depressed clients to


A) carefully observe the negative consequences of their depression.
B) take more personal responsibility for their own negative feelings and actions.
C) stop blaming themselves for negative circumstances beyond their control.
D) identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences.

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Principles of operant conditioning underlie which of the following techniques?


A) counterconditioning
B) systematic desensitization
C) stress inoculation training
D) the token economy

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Cognitive therapies have achieved especially favorable results in the treatment of


A) phobias.
B) depression.
C) compulsions.
D) bed-wetting.

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To help Janet overcome her nearly irresistible craving for chocolate, a therapist provides her with a supply of chocolate candies that contain solidified droplets of a harmless but very bitter-tasting substance. This approach to treatment best illustrates


A) systematic desensitization.
B) light exposure therapy.
C) aversive conditioning.
D) stress inoculation training.

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Which of the following therapists introduced the use of free association?


A) Carl Rogers
B) Sigmund Freud
C) Aaron Beck
D) Mary Cover Jones

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A token economy is to operant conditioning as ________ is to classical conditioning.


A) systematic desensitization
B) electroconvulsive therapy
C) free association
D) drug therapy

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Repeatedly introducing people to things they fear and avoid is most characteristic of


A) stress inoculation training.
B) exposure therapies.
C) behavior modification.
D) rTMS.

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During her weekly therapy sessions, Sabrina will often abruptly shift the focus of her attention and lose her train of thought. A psychoanalyst would suggest that this illustrates


A) spontaneous recovery.
B) progressive relaxation.
C) resistance.
D) regression toward the mean.

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Which of the following treatments is most likely to be used only with severely depressed patients who have not responded to drug therapy?


A) systematic desensitization
B) electroconvulsive therapy
C) psychoanalysis
D) EMDR

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Which of the following is NOT necessarily an advantage of group therapies over individual therapies?


A) They tend to take less time for the therapist.
B) They tend to cost less money for the client.
C) They are more effective.
D) They allow the client to test new behaviors in a social context.

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Which form of treatment is especially likely to focus on the goal of healing social relationships?


A) behavior therapy
B) Psychoanalysis
C) family therapy
D) cognitive therapy

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Which of the following best illustrates a form of psychotherapy?


A) systematic desensitization
B) electroconvulsive therapy
C) psychosurgery
D) rTMS

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Which form of psychotherapy is LEAST likely to occur in therapist-led small groups?


A) client-centered therapy
B) psychoanalysis
C) systematic desensitization
D) cognitive therapy

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When Murli told his therapist, "I came to see what you could do for me," the therapist responded, "It sounds like you're feeling you need some help. Am I right?" The therapist's response illustrates the technique of


A) transference.
B) free association.
C) active listening.
D) systematic desensitization.

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In one treatment for bed-wetting, the child sleeps on a liquid-sensitive pad that when wet, triggers an alarm and awakens the child. This treatment is a form of


A) biomedical therapy.
B) cognitive therapy.
C) behavior therapy.
D) humanistic therapy.

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Which of the following is most likely to contribute to inflated estimates of the value of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing?


A) meta-analysis
B) stress inoculation training
C) the double-blind procedure
D) the placebo effect

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Virtual reality exposure therapy is most likely to prove effective in the treatment of


A) hallucinations.
B) obsessions.
C) depression.
D) phobias.

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A useful feature of group therapy is that it


A) ensures that therapists will become more emotionally involved in clients' real- life problems.
B) eliminates the possibility that clients will experience anxiety during therapy.
C) encourages clients to improve their communication skills.
D) enables severely disturbed individuals to quickly regain normal social

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Deep-brain stimulation is a form of


A) psychodynamic therapy.
B) cognitive therapy.
C) behavior therapy.
D) biomedical therapy.

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The biomedical treatment most widely used today is


A) electroconvulsive therapy.
B) psychosurgery.
C) drug therapy.
D) rTMS.

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