PSY 658 STUDY EXAMS GUIDE ALL QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔vaildity - ✔✔Extent to which a measuring instrument actually measures what it
purports to measure.
✔✔antianxiety drugs - ✔✔Drugs that are used primarily for alleviating anxiety.
✔✔antidepressant drugs - ✔✔Drugs that are used primarily to elevate mood and relieve
depression.
Often also used in the treatment of certain anxiety disorders, bulimia, and certain
personality disorders.
✔✔behavior therapy - ✔✔Used of therapeutic procedures based primarily on principles
of classical and operant conditioning.
✔✔client-centered therapy - ✔✔Nondirective approach to psychotherapy, developed
chiefly by Carl Rogers, that focuses on the natural power of the organism to heal itself;
a key goal is to help clients accept and be themselves.
, ✔✔countertransference - ✔✔Psychodynamic concept that the therapist brings personal
issues, based on his or her own vulnerabilities and conflicts, to the therapeutic
relationship.
✔✔couple therapy - ✔✔Treatment for disordered interpersonal relationships involving
sessions with both members of the relationship present and emphasizing mutual need
gratification, social role expectations, communication patterns, and similar interpersonal
factors.
✔✔efficacy - ✔✔In a situation where treatment is tested under ideal conditions (usually
in a controlled clinical trial), this is how well a given treatment improves clinical outcome
compared to a control or comparison condition.
✔✔electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✔✔Use of electricity to produce convulsions and
unconsciousness; a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic
episodes.
Also known as electroshock therapy.
✔✔family therapy - ✔✔A treatment approach that includes all family members, not just
the identified patient.
✔✔flooding - ✔✔Anxiety-eliciting therapeutic technique involving having a client
repeatedly experience the actual internal or external stimuli that had been identified as
producing anxiety reactions.
✔✔gestalt therapy - ✔✔School of psychology that emphasizes patterns rather than
elements or connections, taking the view that the whole is more than the sum of its
parts.
✔✔imaginal exposure - ✔✔Form of exposure therapy that does not involve a real
stimulus. Instead, the patient is asked to imagine the feared stimulus or situation.
✔✔in vivo exposure - ✔✔Exposure that takes place in a real-life situation as opposed to
the therapeutic or laboratory setting.
✔✔integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) - ✔✔Modification of traditional
behavioral couple therapy that has a focus on acceptance of the partner rather than
being solely change oriented.
✔✔latent context - ✔✔In psychoanalytic theory, repressed actual motives of a dream
that are seeking expression but are so painful or unacceptable that they are disguised
by the manifest content of the dream.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔vaildity - ✔✔Extent to which a measuring instrument actually measures what it
purports to measure.
✔✔antianxiety drugs - ✔✔Drugs that are used primarily for alleviating anxiety.
✔✔antidepressant drugs - ✔✔Drugs that are used primarily to elevate mood and relieve
depression.
Often also used in the treatment of certain anxiety disorders, bulimia, and certain
personality disorders.
✔✔behavior therapy - ✔✔Used of therapeutic procedures based primarily on principles
of classical and operant conditioning.
✔✔client-centered therapy - ✔✔Nondirective approach to psychotherapy, developed
chiefly by Carl Rogers, that focuses on the natural power of the organism to heal itself;
a key goal is to help clients accept and be themselves.
, ✔✔countertransference - ✔✔Psychodynamic concept that the therapist brings personal
issues, based on his or her own vulnerabilities and conflicts, to the therapeutic
relationship.
✔✔couple therapy - ✔✔Treatment for disordered interpersonal relationships involving
sessions with both members of the relationship present and emphasizing mutual need
gratification, social role expectations, communication patterns, and similar interpersonal
factors.
✔✔efficacy - ✔✔In a situation where treatment is tested under ideal conditions (usually
in a controlled clinical trial), this is how well a given treatment improves clinical outcome
compared to a control or comparison condition.
✔✔electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✔✔Use of electricity to produce convulsions and
unconsciousness; a treatment used primarily to alleviate depressive and manic
episodes.
Also known as electroshock therapy.
✔✔family therapy - ✔✔A treatment approach that includes all family members, not just
the identified patient.
✔✔flooding - ✔✔Anxiety-eliciting therapeutic technique involving having a client
repeatedly experience the actual internal or external stimuli that had been identified as
producing anxiety reactions.
✔✔gestalt therapy - ✔✔School of psychology that emphasizes patterns rather than
elements or connections, taking the view that the whole is more than the sum of its
parts.
✔✔imaginal exposure - ✔✔Form of exposure therapy that does not involve a real
stimulus. Instead, the patient is asked to imagine the feared stimulus or situation.
✔✔in vivo exposure - ✔✔Exposure that takes place in a real-life situation as opposed to
the therapeutic or laboratory setting.
✔✔integrative behavioral couple therapy (IBCT) - ✔✔Modification of traditional
behavioral couple therapy that has a focus on acceptance of the partner rather than
being solely change oriented.
✔✔latent context - ✔✔In psychoanalytic theory, repressed actual motives of a dream
that are seeking expression but are so painful or unacceptable that they are disguised
by the manifest content of the dream.
