PSYCH 100 FINALS 2026/2027 PAPER QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Cognitive Therapy - ✔✔teaches individuals new cognitions, thoughts, adaptive
beliefs, expectations, and ways of thinking in order to eliminate abnormal emotions and
behavior
✔✔Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis, challenge a person's unrealistic thoughts
or irrational beliefs
✔✔catastrophize - ✔✔when a person blows things out of proportion
✔✔overgeneralize - ✔✔when a person thinks in all or nothing terms
✔✔benefits of cognitive therapy - ✔✔works well with a variety of anxiety disorders,
eating disorders, and major depression when combined with medication
✔✔family systems therapy - ✔✔emphasizes an understanding of the roles of each
family member and how the family functions as a system, usually with all members of
family but can be done individually
✔✔drug therapy - ✔✔the most widely used medical treatment for psychological
disorders
✔✔antidepressants - ✔✔mood elevators, but also used for a variety of other disorders,
elevates levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
✔✔tranquilizers, anti anxiety - ✔✔to treat mild anxiety, not to be used for long time
periods
✔✔antipsychotic drugs - ✔✔used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders,
inhibits dopamine, reduces delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorganization
✔✔Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) - ✔✔people are shocked which produces a
convulsive brain seizure, used with severely depressed or psychotic individuals, may
alter brain neurotransmitters, used with anesthesia and muscle relaxants
✔✔Psychosurgery - ✔✔not done anymore, prefrontal lobotomy
✔✔prefrontal lobotomy - ✔✔surgically cutting the neural fibers that connect the frontal
lobes with the limbic system, thought to prevent disturbing thoughts and perceptions
from reaching the brain and prevent emotional outbursts
, ✔✔Which of the following is described in the video as a consequence of Debra's severe
depression? - ✔✔She begins to withdraw from her husband, children, and friends, She
has to leave her job as a high-level lawyer
✔✔Which of the following conclusions, based on Debra's story, can be drawn about
people who experience depression? - ✔✔A person's inability to combat depression is
not caused by a lack of desire to stop the depression, Depression is a damaging
disorder that can affect even people who seem to have everything
✔✔The treatment described in the video is designed to treat post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD). Which of the following symptoms are described by the veteran being
interviewed in the video? - ✔✔Regret over not being able to do more during the
traumatic experience, Feelings of guilt over surviving the trauma, Repetitive reliving of
the traumatic experience
✔✔What is one benefit of incorporating virtual reality into PTSD treatment? - ✔✔It
allows each patient to receive customized treatment based on their individual
experience
✔✔What is one reason why researchers would think it's important to measure PTSD
symptoms by using a combination of these 4 different methods - ✔✔Researchers need
to determine if outward signs of improvement are accompanied by an internal sense of
well-being
✔✔What do patients experience in the virtual reality environment? - ✔✔They see, hear,
and smell familiar scenes from the war.
✔✔How does this type of therapy proceed? - ✔✔The intensity of the experience
gradually increases after patients become familiar with the virtual environment.
✔✔How can you summarize the treatment process Dr. Reger describes in the video? -
✔✔Seeing the situation over and over in a safe environment reduces its emotional
impact.
✔✔Structuralism - ✔✔an early school of psychology that used introspection, looking
inward to describe experiences
✔✔Structuralists - ✔✔Wundt and Titchener, analyzed sensations, images, and feelings
into basic elements, broke down mind into smallest elements
✔✔Functionalism - ✔✔A school of psychology that analyzed the function or purpose of
behavior
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Cognitive Therapy - ✔✔teaches individuals new cognitions, thoughts, adaptive
beliefs, expectations, and ways of thinking in order to eliminate abnormal emotions and
behavior
✔✔Rational Emotive Therapy - ✔✔Albert Ellis, challenge a person's unrealistic thoughts
or irrational beliefs
✔✔catastrophize - ✔✔when a person blows things out of proportion
✔✔overgeneralize - ✔✔when a person thinks in all or nothing terms
✔✔benefits of cognitive therapy - ✔✔works well with a variety of anxiety disorders,
eating disorders, and major depression when combined with medication
✔✔family systems therapy - ✔✔emphasizes an understanding of the roles of each
family member and how the family functions as a system, usually with all members of
family but can be done individually
✔✔drug therapy - ✔✔the most widely used medical treatment for psychological
disorders
✔✔antidepressants - ✔✔mood elevators, but also used for a variety of other disorders,
elevates levels of serotonin and norepinephrine
✔✔tranquilizers, anti anxiety - ✔✔to treat mild anxiety, not to be used for long time
periods
✔✔antipsychotic drugs - ✔✔used to treat schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders,
inhibits dopamine, reduces delusions, hallucinations, and thought disorganization
✔✔Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) - ✔✔people are shocked which produces a
convulsive brain seizure, used with severely depressed or psychotic individuals, may
alter brain neurotransmitters, used with anesthesia and muscle relaxants
✔✔Psychosurgery - ✔✔not done anymore, prefrontal lobotomy
✔✔prefrontal lobotomy - ✔✔surgically cutting the neural fibers that connect the frontal
lobes with the limbic system, thought to prevent disturbing thoughts and perceptions
from reaching the brain and prevent emotional outbursts
, ✔✔Which of the following is described in the video as a consequence of Debra's severe
depression? - ✔✔She begins to withdraw from her husband, children, and friends, She
has to leave her job as a high-level lawyer
✔✔Which of the following conclusions, based on Debra's story, can be drawn about
people who experience depression? - ✔✔A person's inability to combat depression is
not caused by a lack of desire to stop the depression, Depression is a damaging
disorder that can affect even people who seem to have everything
✔✔The treatment described in the video is designed to treat post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD). Which of the following symptoms are described by the veteran being
interviewed in the video? - ✔✔Regret over not being able to do more during the
traumatic experience, Feelings of guilt over surviving the trauma, Repetitive reliving of
the traumatic experience
✔✔What is one benefit of incorporating virtual reality into PTSD treatment? - ✔✔It
allows each patient to receive customized treatment based on their individual
experience
✔✔What is one reason why researchers would think it's important to measure PTSD
symptoms by using a combination of these 4 different methods - ✔✔Researchers need
to determine if outward signs of improvement are accompanied by an internal sense of
well-being
✔✔What do patients experience in the virtual reality environment? - ✔✔They see, hear,
and smell familiar scenes from the war.
✔✔How does this type of therapy proceed? - ✔✔The intensity of the experience
gradually increases after patients become familiar with the virtual environment.
✔✔How can you summarize the treatment process Dr. Reger describes in the video? -
✔✔Seeing the situation over and over in a safe environment reduces its emotional
impact.
✔✔Structuralism - ✔✔an early school of psychology that used introspection, looking
inward to describe experiences
✔✔Structuralists - ✔✔Wundt and Titchener, analyzed sensations, images, and feelings
into basic elements, broke down mind into smallest elements
✔✔Functionalism - ✔✔A school of psychology that analyzed the function or purpose of
behavior
