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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT AP_UNIT 13 EXAM
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Question 1: Interpersonal Psychotherapy
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A brief variation of psychodynamic therapy that has been effective in treating depression. Primarily focuses on helping people improve their relationship skills.
Question 2: Chlorpromazine
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Dampens responsiveness to irrelevant stimuli in schizophrenia patients with positive symptoms.Reduces paranoia and hallucinations.
Question 3: Active Listening
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Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers' client-centered therapy.
Question 4: Stress Inoculation Training
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Focuses on helping people to replace negative self-talk with more positive comments.
Question 5: Clinician Perspectives on Psychotherapy
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Therapists overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy because they keep in touch with clients that are satisfied with the treatment they received. Clients emphasize their problems at the start of therapy and their well-being at the end of therapy.
Question 6: Behaviour Modification
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Patients' actions are influenced by controlling the consequences of those actions. Reinforces closer approximations of desired behaviours and withholds reinforcements for undesired behaviours.
Question 7: Dual Action Drugs
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Block the reuptake or breakdown of both serotonin and norepinephrine. Increases the availability of serotonin and norepinephrine. The increased availability of serotonin produces neurogenesis.
Question 8: Humanistic Therapies
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Emphasize the importance of self-awareness for psychological adjustment. Likely to teach clients to take more responsibility for their own feelings and actions.
Question 9: Withdrawal Antianxiety Drugs
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Unpleasant withdrawal symptoms following the discontinued use of an anxiety drug are indicative of physiological dependence. Discontinued use of antianxiety drugs leads to increased anxiety and difficulty sleeping.
Question 10: Client-Centered Therapy
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Developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. Patients' discover their own ways of effectively dealing with their difficulties.
Question 11: Hans Eysenck
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In the 1950s, challenged the effectiveness of psychotherapy because it appeared to be no more beneficial than no treatment at all.
Question 12: Beck's Depression Therapy
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A form of cognitive therapy that persuades depressed patients to reverse their catastrophizing beliefs about themselves and their futures. Uses gentle questioning to reveal depressed clients' irrational thinking.
Question 13: Behaviour Therapy
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Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours. Old learning led to the development of a problem, new learning can fix it. Action based.
Question 14: Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy
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A confrontational therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, that vigorously challenges people's illogical self-defeating attitudes and assumptions. Teaching people to stop blaming themselves for failures and negative circumstances beyond their control.
Question 15: Meta-Analysis
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Refers to a procedure for statistically combining the results of many different studies. The most convincing evidence for the effectiveness of psychotherapy comes from meta-analyses of psychotherapeutic outcome studies.
Question 16: Free Association
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Introduced by Sigmund Freud, it involves the uncensored reporting of any thoughts that come to mind. A central therapeutic technique of psychoanalysis.
Question 17: Placebo Effect
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The beneficial consequence of a person's expecting that a treatment will be therapeutic.
Question 18: Psychosurgery
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Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behaviour. The least used biomedical intervention for changing behaviour.
Question 19: Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy
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An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to electronic simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking. Effective in the treatment of phobias.
Question 20: Aversive Conditioning
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A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behaviour (such as drinking alcohol). Involves associating unwanted behaviours with unpleasant experiences.
Question 21: Biomedical Therapy
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Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology. Prescribed drugs or procedures that act directly on a patient's nervous system.
Question 22: Antipsychotic Drugs
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Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder. Produces therapeutic effects by blocking receptors sites for dopamine.
Question 23: Client Perspectives on Psychotherapy
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Since people enter psychotherapy during a period of life crisis, they tend to overestimate the effectiveness of psychotherapy.Clients convince themselves that they didn't waste their money. Clients are satisfied with the effectiveness of therapy.
Question 24: Resistance
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Refers to the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material during therapy. A patient's hesitation to free associate is most likely a sign of resistance. Supports and maintains the process of repression.