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Psychoanalytic therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS-method in which dream content is
examined as symbolic of id impulses and intrapsychic conflicts.
Psychoanalyst - CORRECT ANSWERS-Therapist who practices psychoanalysis after
earning either an M.D. or a Ph.D. degree and receiving additional specialized
postdoctoral training.
Transference - CORRECT ANSWERS-Psychoanalytic concept suggesting that clients
may seek to relate to the therapist as they do to important authority figures, particularly
their parents.
psychodynamic psychotherapy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Contemporary version of
psychoanalysis that still emphasizes unconscious processes and conflicts but is briefer
and more focused on specific problems.
self-actualizing - CORRECT ANSWERS-Process emphasized in humanistic psychology
in which people strive to achieve their highest potential against difficult life experiences.
person-centered therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS-Therapy method in which the client,
rather than the counselor, primarily directs the course of discussion, seeking self-
discovery and self-responsibility.
unconditional positive regard - CORRECT ANSWERS-Acceptance by the counselor of
the client's feelings and actions without judgment or condemnation.
behavioral model - CORRECT ANSWERS-Explanation of human behavior, including
dysfunction, based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from experimental
psychology.
classical conditioning - CORRECT ANSWERS-(Pavlov) an event that automatically
elicits a response is paired with another stimulus event that does not (a neutral
stimulus). After repeated pairings, the neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus
that by itself can elicit the desired response.
Extinction - CORRECT ANSWERS-Learning process in which a response maintained
by reinforcement in operant conditioning or pairing in classical conditioning decreases
when that reinforcement or pairing is removed
, collective unconscious - CORRECT ANSWERS-Accumulated wisdom of a culture
collected and remembered across generations, a psychodynamic concept introduced by
Carl Jung.
free association - CORRECT ANSWERS-Psychoanalytic therapy technique intended to
explore threatening material repressed into the unconscious. The patient is instructed to
say whatever comes to mind without censoring. dream analysis
Introspection - CORRECT ANSWERS-Early, nonscientific approach to the study of
psychology involving systematic attempts to report thoughts and feelings that specific
stimuli evoked.
systematic desensitization - CORRECT ANSWERS-Behavioral therapy technique to
diminish excessive fears, involving gradual exposure to the feared stimulus paired with
a positive coping experience, usually relaxation.
behavior therapy - CORRECT ANSWERS-therapeutic methods based on the principles
of behavioral and cognitive science, as well as principles of learning as applied to
clinical problems. considers specific behaviors rather than inferred conflicts as
legitimate targets for change.
Reinforcement - CORRECT ANSWERS-In operant conditioning, consequences for
behavior that strengthen it or increase its frequency.
Shaping - CORRECT ANSWERS-In operant conditioning, the development of a new
response by reinforcing successively more similar versions of that response. Both
desirable and undesirable behaviors may be learned in this manner.
multidimensional integrative approach - CORRECT ANSWERS-Approach to the study
of psychopathology that holds psychological disorders are always the products of
multiple interacting causal factors.
Genes - CORRECT ANSWERS-Long deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule, the basic
physical unit of heredity that appears as a location on a chromosome.
diathesis-stress model - CORRECT ANSWERS-Hypothesis that both an inherited
tendency and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder.
Vulnerability - CORRECT ANSWERS-Susceptibility or tendency to develop a disorder.
gene-environment correlation model - CORRECT ANSWERS-Hypothesis that people
with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create
environmental risk factors that promote the disorder.