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1. Carena has a bad habit of biting her fingernails and pulling at her cuticles until her fingers bleed and have sores. Her therapist is teaching her how to not bite and pick at her fingernails using various learning principles. Her therapist is using

psychoanalysis.

behavior therapy.

logotherapy

humanistic therapy.

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2. Trepanning, one of the more primitive practices involving boring a hole into the skull, was used to

coerce and control disruptive patients.

release "evil spirits."

punish those who had committed crimes.

shock patients into a remission of symptoms.

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3. Symbolic rewards used to encourage positive changes in behavior are called

chips.

strokes.

tokens.

operants.

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4. A cognitive therapist is concerned primarily with helping clients change their

thinking patterns.

behaviors.

life-styles.

habits.

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5. The basic assumption of behavior therapy is that

past experiences and emotional trauma must be probed before behavior can be changed.

deep understanding of one's problems leads to behavior change.

learned response causes problems, therefore, behavior can be changed by relearning.

phobias can be created and dismantled.

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6. Cognitive therapists are interested in

only visible behaviors.

unconscious thoughts of sex and aggression.

what people think, believe, and feel.

only maladaptive actions.

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7. The risk-benefit ratio in treating schizophrenia refers to

neither the advantages and disadvantages of hospitalization nor benefits of medication versus the adverse effects.

the advantages and disadvantages of hospitalization.

the benefits of medication in alleviating psychotic symptoms versus the adverse effects.

both the advantages and disadvantages of hospitalization and the benefits versus the adverse effects of medication.

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8. Tardive dyskinesia is a neurological disorder that may be caused by

abuse of amphetamines.

taking major tranquilizers for extended periods.

a lack of dopamine receptors in the limbic system in the brain.

an undersecretion of the body's natural dopamine's.

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9. In psychoanalysis, patients avoid talking about certain subjects. This is called

avoidance.

resistance.

analysis.

transference.

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10. Which of the following promotes mental health?

personal autonomy

lack of self-control

identity confusion

Type A personality

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11. Behavior modification involves

the use of learning principles to change behavior.

the use of insight therapy to change upsetting thoughts and beliefs.

applying non-directive techniques such as unconditional positive regard to clients.

psychoanalytic approaches to specific behavior disturbances.

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12. Freud's theory was based on the belief that neuroses were caused by

learned maladaptive behaviors.

negative self-regard.

destructive interpersonal relationships.

repressed memories, motives, and conflicts.

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13. When electric shock is used to make the sight and smell of alcohol conditioned stimuli for an aversion response, the electric shock serves as the

conditioned response.

conditioned hierarchy.

unconditioned response.

unconditioned stimulus.

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14. __________ is any technique involving surgical alteration of the brain

Ablation lesioning

Deep ECT

Psychic surgery

Psychosurgery

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15. If ignoring causes a child's temper-tantrums to cease, a psychologist would call this effect

time out.

shaping.

punishment.

extinction.

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16. Freud's theory of dream analysis is based on the assumption that the true meaning of dreams is found in their

latent content.

conscious core.

neurotic content.

manifest content.

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17. In an institution for delinquent adolescents, a behavioral system has been implemented in which the adolescents earn points for target behaviors like getting up on time, making beds, attending class, etc. They are allowed to exchange their earned points for privileges, activities, etc. This system is called __________ and is based on __________.

a token economy; reinforcement.

time out; extinction.

systematic desensitization; gradual exposure.

primary reinforcement; non-reward

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18. Which form of therapy places responsibility for the course of therapy on the client?

directive therapy

non-directive therapy

insight therapy

action therapy

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19. In psychoanalysis, an emotional attachment to the therapist that symbolically represents other important relationships is called

empathy.

identification.

resistance.

transference.

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20. A child who has an intense fear of a dog as a result of some traumatic experience in the dog's presence would be a candidate for

desensitization.

punishment training.

stimulus control.

aversive conditioning.

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