8/22/25, 6:51 PM PSYCH 1300 - Chapter 16
PSYCH 1300 chap 16 Study Guide questions
and accurate detailed answers \latest update
2025-2026
Psychotherapy is treatment involving psychological
techniques that consists of interactions between a
trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome
LOQ 16-1
psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
How do psychotherapy and
The major psychotherapies derive from psychology's
the biomedical therapies
psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive
differ?
perspectives.
Biomedical therapy treats psychological disorders with
medications or procedures that act directly on a
patient's physiology. An eclectic approach combines
techniques from various forms of psychotherapy.
Treatment involving psychological techniques;
Psychotherapy consists of interactions between a trained therapist
and someone seeking to overcome psychological
difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Biomedical therapy Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly oon the
person's physiology.
Through psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud tried to give
people self-insight and relief form their disorders by
bringing anxiety-laden feelings and thoughts into
conscious awareness.
LOQ 16-2
What are the goals and Psychoanalytic techniques included using free
techniques of association and interpretation of instances of
psychoanalysis, and how have resistance and transference.
they been adapted in Psychodynamic therapy has been influenced by
psychodynamic therapy? traditional psychoanalysis but differs from it in many
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ways, including little attention to the concepts of id,
ego, and
superego. This contemporary therapy is briefer, less
expensive, and more focused on helping the client find
relief from current symptoms, Psychodynamic
therapists help clients understand how past
relationships create themes that may be acted out in
present relationships.
Resistance In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-
laden material.
Interpretation In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting of supposed dream
meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and
events in order to promote insight.
Transference In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of
emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred
for a parent).
RP-1 transference; resistance; interpretation
In psychoanalysis, when
patients experience strong
feelings for their
therapist, this is called _.
Patients are
said to demonstrate
anxiety when they put up
mental blocks around
sensitive memories,
indicating _. The
therapist
will attempt to provide
insight into the
underlying anxiety by
offering a(n) __________
of mental blocks.
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Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition;
Psychodynamic therapy
views individuals as responding to unconscious forces
and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-
insight.
Both psychodynamic and humanistic therapies are
insight therapies - they attempt to improve functioning
by increasing people's awareness of motives and
LOQ 16-3
defenses.
What are the basic themes
Humanistic therapy's goals include helping people grow
of humanistic therapy?
in self-awareness and self- acceptance; promoting
What are the goals and
personal growth rather than curing illness; helping
techniques of Roger's
people take responsibility for their own growth;
person-centered
focusing on conscious thoughts rather than unconscious
approach?
motivations; and seeing the present and future as more
important than the past. Carl Rogers' person-
centered therapy proposed that therapists' most
important contribution is to function as a psychological mirror
through active
listening and to provide a growth-fostering environment
of unconditional positive regard.
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning
Insight therapies
by increasing a person's awareness of underlying
motives and defenses.
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in
Person-centered therapy which the therapist uses techniques, such as active
listening, within an accepting, genuine, empathic
environment to facilitate clients' growth.
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates,
Active listening
and seeks clarification. A feature of Roger's person-
centered therapy.
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl
Unconditional positive regard
Rogers believed would help clients develop self-
awareness and self-acceptance.
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PSYCH 1300 chap 16 Study Guide questions
and accurate detailed answers \latest update
2025-2026
Psychotherapy is treatment involving psychological
techniques that consists of interactions between a
trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome
LOQ 16-1
psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
How do psychotherapy and
The major psychotherapies derive from psychology's
the biomedical therapies
psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, and cognitive
differ?
perspectives.
Biomedical therapy treats psychological disorders with
medications or procedures that act directly on a
patient's physiology. An eclectic approach combines
techniques from various forms of psychotherapy.
Treatment involving psychological techniques;
Psychotherapy consists of interactions between a trained therapist
and someone seeking to overcome psychological
difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Biomedical therapy Prescribed medications or procedures that act directly oon the
person's physiology.
Through psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud tried to give
people self-insight and relief form their disorders by
bringing anxiety-laden feelings and thoughts into
conscious awareness.
LOQ 16-2
What are the goals and Psychoanalytic techniques included using free
techniques of association and interpretation of instances of
psychoanalysis, and how have resistance and transference.
they been adapted in Psychodynamic therapy has been influenced by
psychodynamic therapy? traditional psychoanalysis but differs from it in many
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,8/22/25, 6:51 PM PSYCH 1300 - Chapter 16
ways, including little attention to the concepts of id,
ego, and
superego. This contemporary therapy is briefer, less
expensive, and more focused on helping the client find
relief from current symptoms, Psychodynamic
therapists help clients understand how past
relationships create themes that may be acted out in
present relationships.
Resistance In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-
laden material.
Interpretation In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting of supposed dream
meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and
events in order to promote insight.
Transference In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of
emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred
for a parent).
RP-1 transference; resistance; interpretation
In psychoanalysis, when
patients experience strong
feelings for their
therapist, this is called _.
Patients are
said to demonstrate
anxiety when they put up
mental blocks around
sensitive memories,
indicating _. The
therapist
will attempt to provide
insight into the
underlying anxiety by
offering a(n) __________
of mental blocks.
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, 8/22/25, 6:51 PM PSYCH 1300 - Chapter 16
Therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition;
Psychodynamic therapy
views individuals as responding to unconscious forces
and childhood experiences, and seeks to enhance self-
insight.
Both psychodynamic and humanistic therapies are
insight therapies - they attempt to improve functioning
by increasing people's awareness of motives and
LOQ 16-3
defenses.
What are the basic themes
Humanistic therapy's goals include helping people grow
of humanistic therapy?
in self-awareness and self- acceptance; promoting
What are the goals and
personal growth rather than curing illness; helping
techniques of Roger's
people take responsibility for their own growth;
person-centered
focusing on conscious thoughts rather than unconscious
approach?
motivations; and seeing the present and future as more
important than the past. Carl Rogers' person-
centered therapy proposed that therapists' most
important contribution is to function as a psychological mirror
through active
listening and to provide a growth-fostering environment
of unconditional positive regard.
Therapies that aim to improve psychological functioning
Insight therapies
by increasing a person's awareness of underlying
motives and defenses.
A humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in
Person-centered therapy which the therapist uses techniques, such as active
listening, within an accepting, genuine, empathic
environment to facilitate clients' growth.
Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates,
Active listening
and seeks clarification. A feature of Roger's person-
centered therapy.
A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude, which Carl
Unconditional positive regard
Rogers believed would help clients develop self-
awareness and self-acceptance.
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