AP Psychology Quiz 14A - Treatment of Psychological Disorders (15 Questions)

The following is a quiz with Treatment of Psychological Disorders based questions. Take this quiz as often as you would like. You goal for this exam should be 60% or higher.

1 A client suddenly can no longer free associate during psychoanalysis. The therapist would view this as

	resistance
	transference
	free association
	insight
	passive avoidance

2 Rishi is seeking treatment because he is experiencing constant intrusive thoughts and compulsions. To neutralize the anxiety the thoughts create, he constantly needs to check that the stove is turned off in his apartment and make sure his front door is locked. A psycho-dynamically oriented therapist would

	view the compulsions as defense mechanisms and help Rishi overcome the underlying conflicts
	use exposure treatment to overcome the compulsions
	reward Rishi when he is able to resist the compulsions and withhold rewards when he succumbs to the need to perform the compulsions
	try to alter Rishi’s maladaptive assumptions and interpretations of events
	focus on the current structure of Rishi’s family and how they are contributing to the problem

3 The purpose of client-centered therapy is

	to correct faulty cognitions
	teach new effective ways of managing one's life
	reach one's potential for self actualization
	expose unconscious desires that may disrupt normal functioning
	resolve the conflict between the id and superego

4 Carl Rogers created client-centered therapy with the belief that

	clients needed an completely warm and accepting environment to discuss their feelings
	gradual exposure to anxiety-producing stimuli could relieve the associated anxiety
	clients could only overcome childhood anxiety through catharsis
	biological treatments were not effective without therapy
	directly challenging a client's maladaptive thought patterns could then change them

5 Martin Seligman’s demonstration of learned helplessness among dogs is a model for which mental illness?

	Depression
	Schizophrenia
	Anorexia Nervosa
	Borderline personality disorder
	Bipolar disorder

6 Desensitization therapy utilizes the ideas of which of the following models of behavior?

	Psychoanalytic
	Humanistic
	Social
	Cognitive
	Behavioral

7 John attributed his girlfriend breaking up with him to the fact that he hadn’t been treating her too well recently. He wasn’t sure why he was acting that way, since he wasn’t normally like that. He also felt that she was never sure if she wanted a boyfriend so he wasn’t surprised when she broke it off. His attributions are

	External, global and stable
	Internal, global and stable
	External, specific and unstable
	Internal, specific and unstable
	Internal, global and unstable

8 Cognitive therapy was developed in the 1960s by

	Sigmund Freud
	Abraham Maslow
	Aaron Beck
	Carol Rogers
	Edward Thorndike

9 Xanax is an example of a(n)

	Antianxiety drug
	Antipsychotic drug
	Antidepressant drug
	Antibipolar drug
	Mood stabilizer

10 A tranquilizer is a kind of

	antipsychotic drug
	SSRI
	antianxiety drug
	antidepressant drug
	antibipolar drug

11 Which of the following generally involves the discussion of a common and shared difficulty, such as alcoholism or social anxiety, by a few people, under the direction of a therapist?

	Rational-emotive therapy
	Family therapy
	Person-centered therapy
	Group therapy
	Interpersonal therapy

12 Treatment which focuses on present situations and a patient's current relationships is referred to as which of the following?

	Family therapy
	Client-centered therapy
	Psychoanalysis
	Interpersonal therapy
	Rational-emotive behavior therapy

13 Spontaneous remission refers to

	recovery with the use of biomedical treatment
	recovery without treatment
	recovery after treatment
	a lessening, but not erasure, of symptoms with treatment
	recovery with psychotherapy only without use of biomedical treatments

14 A person who has a mental illness that improves without treatment is said to have

	the placebo effect
	eclectic treatment
	sociocultural-induced illness
	treatment-resistant illness
	spontaneous remission

15 Secondary prevention programs for mental illnesses are aimed at

	people who do not have a mental illness
	people who have the early stages of a disorder
	young children only
	adults only
	people at risk for developing a mental illness

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