Chapter 3 (E1)

Question 1

What is defined as the forces at work within a family that produce particular behaviors or symptoms. The way families live and interact with one another.

Answer 1

Family dynamics

Question 2

What is the definition for treatment of the family as a whole?

Answer 2

Family therapy

Question 3

A type of talk therapy that focuses on the complexity and inner workings of the mind is called?

Answer 3

Psychotherapy

Question 4

Who is the “Father of Psychiatry”

Answer 4

Sigmund Freud

Question 5

Who is an Australian neurologist that claims the most psychological disturbances are the result of early trauma or incidents that are often not remembered or recognized?

Answer 5

Sigmund Freud

Question 6

Sigmund Freud identified 3 layers of mental activity. What are they?

Answer 6

The conscious
The preconscious
The unconscious

Question 7

What is the conscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?

Answer 7

Current awareness

Question 8

What is the preconscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?

Answer 8

Mind that lies below the surface.
Easy accessible with conscious effort

Question 9

What is the unconscious mind with Freuds 3 layers of mental activity?

Answer 9

Where our primitive feelings, drives, and memories reside (stay in one place permanently)

Question 10

Freuds definition of “Id” is what?

Answer 10

Pleasure seeking, impulsive part of our personalities that lurks in the unconscious mind.

Question 11

Freuds definition of “ego” is what?

Answer 11

The problem solver and reality tester that navigates the outside world.

Question 12

Freuds definition of “superego” is what?

Answer 12

The moral component of the personality

Question 13

What is the definition that is used to search for forgotten and repressed memories?

Answer 13

Free association

Question 14

Feelings of a therapist’s personal thoughts and feelings onto a client.

Answer 14

Countertransference

Question 15

What is the definition for the patient projecting intense feelings onto the therapist?

Answer 15

Transference

Question 16

A hands on system in which therapists actively guide and challenge maladaptive behaviors and distorted views?

Answer 16

Interpersonal therapy (IPT)

Question 17

Who investigated classical condition and what is it?

Answer 17

Ivan Pavlov
Involuntary behavior and reflexes can be conditioned to respond to neutral stimuli

Question 18

Who conducted a research that voluntary behaviors are learned through consequences of positive or negative reinforcement?

Answer 18

B. F. Skinner (1938)

Question 19

Learned responses that can be reversed by first promoting relaxation and then gradually facing a particular anxiety producing stimulus is called?

Answer 19

Systemic Desensitization

Question 20

A therapy used to eradicate unwanted habits by associating unpleasant consequences with them?
Ex: Antabuse is a medication that when you ingest alcohol you become very ill.

Answer 20

Aversion therapy

Question 21

Part of the Maslow Hierarchy of Needs:
At the top, refers to the drive to go beyond the personal self?

Answer 21

Self-Transcendent

Question 22

A therapy based on both cognitive and behavioral therapy. Seeks to modify negative thoughts that lead to dysfunctional emotions and actions?

Answer 22

Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)

Question 23

Unique assumptions about ourselves, others, and the world around us is called?

Answer 23

schemata

Question 24

What is the primary biological treatment for mental disorders?

Answer 24

Psychopharmacology

Question 25

What is an effective treatment therapy for severe depression and other conditions?
Procedure that uses electrical current to induce a seizure.

Answer 25

Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Question 26

Surgically implanted electrodes stimulating a specific area of the brain?

Answer 26

Deep brain stimulation

Question 27

A higher frequency electrical pulse instead of electricity to induce a seizure is called?

Answer 27

Magnetic seizure therapy (MST)

Question 28

An electromagnetic device to deliver a rapidly pulsed magnetic field to the cerebral cortex to activate neurons is?

Answer 28

Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)

Question 29

A Swiss psychologist that concluded that cognitive development was a progression from primitive awareness to complex thought and responses

Answer 29

Jean Piaget

Question 30

Who is a child psychoanalyst that described development as occurring in 8 different life stages?

Answer 30

Erik Erickson

Question 31

Gathering of 2 or more people who share a common purpose?

Answer 31

Group

Question 32

Type of leader:
Exerts control over the group?

Answer 32

Autocratic leader

Question 33

Type of leader:
Supports extensive group interaction in the process of problem solving?

Answer 33

Democratic leader

Question 34

Type of leader:
Allows the group members to behave in any way they choose and does not attempt to control the group?

Answer 34

Laissez-faire leader

Question 35

Therapeutic milieu is also called?

Answer 35

Healthy environment

Question 36

When a relationship of 2 people is stressful and unstable, a 3rd person comes in to stabilize the system.
This is called?

Answer 36

Triangulating

Question 37

A form of displacement in which a family member is blamed for another family members distress.
This is called?

Answer 37

Scapegoating

Question 38

A no-win situation.
This is called?

Answer 38

Double bind