PSY 228 Final Exam questions with verified answers
1 What is RT?
2 What is RET?
3 What is REBT? Ans✓✓✓ 1 Rational Therapy
2 Rational Emotional Therapy
3 Rational Emotional Behavioral Therapy
Confirmation Bais Ans✓✓✓ looking only for information that validates your
viewpoint
Decatastrophizing Ans✓✓✓ stopping thought rumination
Define Stress (class room definition) Ans✓✓✓ Stress ins the tension, discomfort
and/or physiological symptoms that arise when a stressor strains our ability to
cope effectively
Describe depressive realism and how it differs from moderately depressed verses
deeply depressed people Ans✓✓✓ Depressive realism - the phenomena that
depressed people are accurate in their perception of control/ view of the world is
only true for moderately depressed people
Severely depressed individuals are not accurate in their perceptions of the world
Describe how Learned Helplessness relates to optimism and pessimism Ans✓✓✓
-Optimists are LESS likely to give in helplessness and are LESS likely to be
depressed
- Pessimists are MORE likely to give into helplessness and are MORE likely to be
depressed
, Describe Martin Seligman's research on learned helplessness Ans✓✓✓ -Martin
Seligman discovered that administrating shocks to restrained dogs lead to the
dogs acting helpless.
-It is not the shock that makes the dogs helpless, it is the restraint that makes the
dogs helpless.
- the dogs learn that they have no control over the situation AKA Learned
Helplessness
Describe the difference between contingent and non-continent praise Ans✓✓✓
contigent praise - praise that is reliant on having done something praiseworthy,*
mastery, controllability
non-contigent praise - unrelated false praise, zero controllability/ mastery
*Max Quote
Describe the dimensions of Attributional/Explanatory Style Ans✓✓✓ 1
Permanence: temporary vs permanent
2 Pervasiveness: local vs global
3 Personalization: self blame vs distributed blame
Describe the disadvantages of the feel-good self-esteem movement Ans✓✓✓
The feel good self-esteem movement believed that by removing negative
emotions self esteem and positivity would improve but thy were wrong because
in order to rise you have to fall
In order to achieve mastery, you need frustration
in order to achieve flow, you need failure, and frustration
1 What is RT?
2 What is RET?
3 What is REBT? Ans✓✓✓ 1 Rational Therapy
2 Rational Emotional Therapy
3 Rational Emotional Behavioral Therapy
Confirmation Bais Ans✓✓✓ looking only for information that validates your
viewpoint
Decatastrophizing Ans✓✓✓ stopping thought rumination
Define Stress (class room definition) Ans✓✓✓ Stress ins the tension, discomfort
and/or physiological symptoms that arise when a stressor strains our ability to
cope effectively
Describe depressive realism and how it differs from moderately depressed verses
deeply depressed people Ans✓✓✓ Depressive realism - the phenomena that
depressed people are accurate in their perception of control/ view of the world is
only true for moderately depressed people
Severely depressed individuals are not accurate in their perceptions of the world
Describe how Learned Helplessness relates to optimism and pessimism Ans✓✓✓
-Optimists are LESS likely to give in helplessness and are LESS likely to be
depressed
- Pessimists are MORE likely to give into helplessness and are MORE likely to be
depressed
, Describe Martin Seligman's research on learned helplessness Ans✓✓✓ -Martin
Seligman discovered that administrating shocks to restrained dogs lead to the
dogs acting helpless.
-It is not the shock that makes the dogs helpless, it is the restraint that makes the
dogs helpless.
- the dogs learn that they have no control over the situation AKA Learned
Helplessness
Describe the difference between contingent and non-continent praise Ans✓✓✓
contigent praise - praise that is reliant on having done something praiseworthy,*
mastery, controllability
non-contigent praise - unrelated false praise, zero controllability/ mastery
*Max Quote
Describe the dimensions of Attributional/Explanatory Style Ans✓✓✓ 1
Permanence: temporary vs permanent
2 Pervasiveness: local vs global
3 Personalization: self blame vs distributed blame
Describe the disadvantages of the feel-good self-esteem movement Ans✓✓✓
The feel good self-esteem movement believed that by removing negative
emotions self esteem and positivity would improve but thy were wrong because
in order to rise you have to fall
In order to achieve mastery, you need frustration
in order to achieve flow, you need failure, and frustration
