Can anyone please help me with a few psychology questions i had trouble with?





1. _______ therapy involves using various psychoactive drugs to treat mental disorders.
Moral
Medical
Meta-analytical
Eclectic

2. Your friend believes that psychotherapy is useless and that emotional problems are just as likely to go away without treatment. You disagree because evaluation studies have found that psychotherapy:
has an approximate success rate of 50 percent
is more effective than no treatment
is more effective than drug therapy
may be effective because the patient expects it to be effective

3.Which of the following is not a technique developed by Freud as a part of psychoanalytic treatment?
progressive relaxation
free association
analysis of slips of the tongue
dream interpretation

4. According to Carl Rogers, the therapist’s role was to:
provide specific programs for behavioral change
elevate the client from a laziness that Rogers believed to be inborn
help the client discover unconscious motives that are the root of the client’s problem
demonstrate understanding and positive regard

5. Therapists from the client-centered approach assume the importance of empathy and reflection in producing change. The research:
has supported their assumption
has supported the importance of empathy but not reflection
has supported the importance of reflection but not empathy
has indicated that empathy and reflection may not be as important as previously believed

6. One of the common assumptions of cognitive therapy is that:
maladaptive behaviors are learned through one’s environment
environmental improvement will result in improvement in the client
it is important to identify the unconscious conflicts
treatment primarily involves changing the client’s maladaptive thought patterns

7. Dr. Johnson is a behavior therapist. The techniques she uses are based upon the principles of:
classical and operant conditioning
Freudian psychoanalysis
attribution theory
the medical model

8. Monitoring one’s thoughts, setting specific goals, learning to reinforce oneself, and substituting positive for negative thoughts are characteristic of:
psychoanalysis
short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy
cognitive-behavior therapy
systematic desensitization

9. A psychoanalyst would view a phobia as a symptom of:
some unconscious conflict
an irrational belief
other anxieties in the person’s life
a poorly learned behavior

10. ECT is a controversial treatment for depression because it:
has serious side effects, such as memory loss
is based on the use of antidepressant drugs
has no effect at all on many patients
is prescribed by psychiatrists but not by clinical psychologists

2 Responses to “Can anyone please help me with a few psychology questions i had trouble with?”

  1. Stacey T said:

    1- disorder
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    Good Luck.

  2. Natalie Lloyd said:

    Hey! did you ever figure out any of these answers? I am in psychology right now and i can not figure these answers out! If you did get the right answers will you please email me! haha Thanks

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