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Exam 5
Morehead State Ch 13, 14, 15 Butz
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
12/08/2010

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when your behavior differs from what society expects
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Deviance disoder
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When your everyday adaptive behavior is impaired. Key criterion in the diagnosis of substance use disorders
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Maladaptive Disorder
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criterion met by people who are troubled by depression or anxiety disorders
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Distress Disorder
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medical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull, exposing the dura mater in order to treat health problems related to intracranial diseases
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Trephination
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French physician who was instrumental in the development of a more humane psychological approach to the custody and care of psychiatric patients, referred to today as moral treatment.
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Philippe Pinel
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Proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease

can be diagnosed, treated and usually cured

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Medical Model
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Study Involving "pseudopatients"
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Examined whether psychiatrists are able to distinguish "sane" from "insane"
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Who conducted a study involving "pseudopatients"?
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Rosenhan (1973)
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What is the DSM-IV?
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The american psychiatric associations diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders
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Clinical Disorders, most V-Codes, and conditions that need Clinical attention.
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Axis 1
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Disorders include personality disorders:mental retardation, long standing conditions
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Axis 2
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Physical Conditions which play a role in the development

General Medical conditions

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Axis 3
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Psychosocial and environmental problems
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Axis IV
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Global Assessment of Functioning
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Axis V
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What are two types of mood disorders?
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Depression, Bipolar
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People show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a loss of interest in previous souces of pleasure
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Depression Disorder
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Marked by the experience of both depressed and manic periods
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Bipolar Disorder
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic disorder, phobias, OCD and PTSD are all kinds of _____ disorders
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Anxiety
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Schizophrenia is a ______ disorder
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Schizophrenia/Psychotic disorder
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What is a substance-related disorder?
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Disorders related to taking of a substance, legal or not
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What are two types of dissociative disorder?
Definition

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative amnesia

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What are two types of personality disorders? (diagnosed on Axis 2)
Definition

Narcissistic personality disorder

Borderline personality disorder

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specialize in diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems emphasizes the treatment of full-fledged disorders
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Clinical Psychologists
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Specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders and everyday behavioral problems... this is slanted toward the treatment of everyday behavioral problems
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Counselors
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Physicians who specialize in the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders
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Psychiatrists
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intentional interpersonal relationship used by trained psychotherapists to aid a client or patient in problems of living.
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Psychotherapy
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Involve verbal interactions intended to enchance clients' self-knowledge and thus promote healthful changes in personality and behavior
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Insight Therapies
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an insight therapy that emphasizes the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses through techniques such as free association and transference
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Psychoanalysis
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Case of Anna O
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Patient Suffered From Hysteria

physical symptoms like paralysis and numbness w/o physiological causes

now known as somatoform disorders

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Free association
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Clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur, with as little censorship as possible
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When clients start relating to their therapists in ways that mimic critical relationships in their lives
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Transference
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What is Person Centered Therapy
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Client Centered therapy
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Client Centered Therapy is based off of ____ and ____
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empathy & reflection
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The capacity to share the sadness or happiness of another sentient being through consciousness rather than physically.
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Empathy
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Therapist makes statements to "clarify clients feelings and emotions"
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Reflection
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Uses specific strategies to correct habitual thinking errors that underlie various types of disorders
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Cognitive Therapy
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What are the three stages of cognitive therapy?
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stable, internal, global explanations
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Involves the application of the principles of learning and conditioning to direct efforts to change clients' maladaptive behaviors
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Behavioral Therapy
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uses classical conditioning to create a negative response to a stimulus that has elicted problematic behavior
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Aversion Therapy
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A behavior therapy used to reduce client's phobic responses
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Systematic Desensitization
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A person's ranking of a class of situations from least to most anxiety-producing, which may then be used as a basis of systematic
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Anxiety Hierarchy
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Gradual exposure to steps to desensitizing a patient/gradual exposure to fear & stimulus
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Exposure
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uses a variety of behavioral techniques such as modeling systematic monitoring of one's behavior and behavioral rehearsal
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy
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Hierarchy and exposure to fear

Compulsions delayed or prevented

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Exposure and response prevention
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Physiological interventions intended to reduce symptoms associated with psychological disorders
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Biomedical therapies
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it consists of cutting the connections to and from the prefrontal cortex, the anterior part of the frontal lobes of the brain
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lobotomy
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a biomedical treatment in which electric shock is used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions
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electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
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a thin electrode is surgically implanted in the brain and connected to an implanted pulse generator so that various electrical currents can be delivered to brain tissue adjacent to the electrode
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Deep Brain Stimulation
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the branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others.
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Social Psychology
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What do social psychologists study?
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The way individuals' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by others
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Occurs when people yield to real or imagined social pressure
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Conformity
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6 Controls 1 Study Patient, all said the wrnog answer, control questioned if he had the right answer
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Asch's line study
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Results of Asch's line study
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76% of the participants conformed at least once

On average, subjects conformed on 37% of critical trials

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Milgram (1963) study on obedience
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One person assigned role of "teacher", other person assigned to "learner"
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Role of participant and "Mr. Wallace"
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Participant-Shock Mr. Wallace (Teacher)

Mr. Wallace- pretend to be in pain (Learner)

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Definition
dependent measure
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Results of Milgram study
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Blind Obedience can be extremely destructive (example nazis in germany)
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Effect of institutional authority
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Bridgeport office building-47.5% obey

instead of the 60-65%

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Effect of proximity of victim
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distance between participant and Mr. Wallace

when in sight, the obedience level dropped

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Ethical questions (in regard to Milgram's study)
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Long lasting regret feeling

distressing

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Zimbardo (1971)
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Prison Experiement

as a study of the psychological effects of becoming a prisoner or prison guard.

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Widely shared expectations about how people in certain positions are supposed to behave
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Social Roles
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Zimbardos Method
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participants randomly assigned roles
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Results of Zimbardo
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The participants adapted to their roles well beyond what even Zimbardo himself expected, leading the guards to display authoritarian measures and ultimately to subject some of the prisoners to torture. In turn, many of the prisoners developed passive attitudes and accepted physical abuse, and, at the request of the guards, readily inflicted punishment on other prisoners who attempted to stop it.
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The concept that abnormal behavior is the result of a disease goes with the _____
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Medical Model
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Which of the following is not one of the three primary criteria commonly used by psychologists to diagnose psychological disorders?

Cognitive Confusion

Personal Distress

Maladaptive Behavior

Deviance

Definition
Cognitive Confusion
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The DSM classification system is said to be "multiaxial." This means that the system

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asks for judgements about individuals on numerous seperate dimensions
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DSM-IV records supplemental information regarding an individual's physical condition, recent stress, and current level of functioning on

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Asks for judgements about individuals on numerous seperate dimensions
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DSM-IV records supplemental information regarding an individual's physical condition, recent stress, and current level of functioning on

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Axes III, IV and V
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Anxiety disorders that are characterized by a persistent fear of a specific object or situation are known as
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Phobic Disorders
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While a person with ___ experiences anxiety only in certain specific situations, a person with ____ experiences anxiety in a wide variety of situations

 

Definition

Phobic Disoders

Generalized Anxiety Disorders

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Kimberly constantly thinks her immaculate house is dirty and spends most of her day cleaning, scrubbing, and straightening up. She could be diagnosed as having
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Obessive Compulsive Disorder
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Frank witnessed a horrible car accident but cannot remember anything about it. Frank appears to have

 

Definition
Dissociative amnesia
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The psychological disorder that involves the coexistence in one person of two or more largely complete, and usually very different, personalities is

Definition
Dissociative identity disorder
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Emotional disturbances that affect one's physical, perceptual, social, and thought processes are referred to as
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Mood disorders
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Which of the following is a mood disorder

 

Fugue

Bipolar disorder

panic disorder

conversion disorder

Definition
Bipolar Disorder
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Carly has had intense feelings of sadness for the past several weeks. She has very little energy and has stopped going out with her friends. She has lost her appetite and rarely cooks. Carly feels her situation is hopeless and that she only has herself to blame. Most likely Carly has

 

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Major depressive disorder
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Psychoanalysis is a therapy that emphasizes
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the recovery of unconscious conflicts, motives, and defenses
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In client-centered therapy Roger believed that it is critical for the therapist to provide
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A warm, supportive and accepting climate
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An integrated therapy that is focused on changing self-defeating patterns of thinking and  maladaptive behavior is known as:
Definition
cognitive-behavioral therapy
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In Milgram's research on obedience, what did the experimenter do to the teacher when the teacher questioned whether the experiment should continue?

 

Definition
The teacher was given verbal prompts to continue
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Milgram's original study found that approximately ____ of subjects exhibited obedience by administering all 30 levels of electric shock.
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65%
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The typical prison guard in the Stanford Prison Simluation

 

Definition
behaved in an abusive and malicious manner toward the prisoners
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Behavior that does not coincide with cultural norms may be considered to be
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Deviant
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Terri was recently diagnosed as having major depressive disorder. The disorder is listed on ___ of DSM-IV

Which axis?

Definition
Axis I
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Grayson seems to be preoccupied with the possibility that he might miss an important message from someone in his family. He checks for new messages on his answering machine every 15 minutes. Grayson's constant checking for messages could be considered an example of
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A compulsion
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Charlie believes he is “better than the pope” and consistently disregards the feelings of others.  He is also highly sensitive to feedback that challenges his positive self-views.  Clinical psychologists would most likely diagnose Charlie with:

 

Definition
Narcissitic personality disorder
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David Rosenhan's classic study illustrated that:
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Psychiatrists are highly inaccurate in distinguishing those who are "sane" from those who are "insane"
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Therapits who emphasize "talk therapy" in treatment employ the ___ approach to psychotherapy
Definition
Insight
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The idea that interactions designed to help a client develop self-knowledge and thus progress to healthy changes in personality and behavior is the basis for
Definition
Insight Therapy
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In free association....
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clients spontaneously express their thoughts and feelings exactly as they occur
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refers to the client's redirection toward the therapist of unconscious emotional reactions originally felt towards others
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Transference
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Rogers believed that client-centered therapists must provide unconditional positive regard for their clients. In other words, they must
Definition
Show complete, nonjudgemental acceptance of the client as a person
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Your psychology professor tells you that in her private practice she considers herself to be a behavior therapist, accordingly she is most likely to argue that pathological behaviors
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can be modified directly, through the application of established principles of conditioning
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Systematic desensitization is a therapy designed to
Definition
reduce phobic responses
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Clients receiving ___ are taught to detect and evaluate their negative self-defeating thoughts and statements
Definition
cognitive therapy
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The branch of psychology concerned with the way individuals thoughts, feelings and behaviors are influenced by others is
Definition
social psychology
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Asch's "line study" clearly demonstrated that people __ alter their behavior so that it conforms to the behavior of others
Definition
Frequently
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The key criterion in the diagnosis of substance use disorders
Definition
Maladaptive disorder
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