The technique reduces people to puppets controlled by therapists! It doesn’t respect human freedom.” This criticism is most likely to be directed at:

A. Systematic desensitization.
B. Psychoanalysis.
C. Emdr.
D. A token economy

Counterconditioning techniques were derived from principles first developed by:____________?

A. B.f. skinner
B. Sigmund freud.
C. Carl rogers.
D. Ivan pavlov

A psychodynamic therapist is most likely to: _____________?

A. Suggest interpretive insights regarding patients’ difficulties.
B. Help patients identify a hierarchy of anxiety-arousing experiences.
C. Associate patients’ undesirable behaviors with unpleasant consequences.
D. Recommend the use of antipsychotic drugs during the process of psychotherapy.

The value of light exposure therapy appears to result from its influence on people’s:

A. Self-blaming explanations.
B. Social relationships.
C. Circadian rhythm
D. Visual acuity.

Which form of therapy is most likely to be criticized for being too expensive and time-consuming?

A. Psychoanalysis
B. Systematic desensitization
C. Client-centered therapy
D. Family therapy

Although Shawn felt terribly depressed when he began psychotherapy, he was much happier by the time he reasonable to attribute some of his improvement to:_________?

A. Therapeutic touch.
B. Regression toward the mean.
C. The double-blind technique.
D. Transference.

Psychoanalysis would suggest that resistance during therapy supports and maintains the process of: _____________?

A. Dream interpretation.
B. Free association.
C. Meta-analysis.
D. Repression

In programs to treat alcoholism clients consume alcohol that contains a nausea-producing drug. The therapist is using a technique known as: _________?

A. Free association.
B. Systematic desensitization.
C. Aversive conditioning
D. Operant conditioning.

Which of the following therapies is more concerned with removing specific troubling symptoms than with providing special insights into the personality of the client?

A. Client-centered therapy
B. Behavior therapy
C. Psychoanalysis
D. Cognitive therapy

In treating an abnormal behavior, the main concern of a psychoanalyst would be to discover the ____________?

A. Childhood unconscious conflict that led to the behavior
B. Repressed memories from childhood that instigate aggressive behavior
C. Inappropriate thought patterns that underlie the behavior
D. Ways in which the behavior keeps the client from becoming self-actualized