507 Final Exam
What is the "Third Force?" - ✔✔ correct answer Roughly is the Humanistic/Existential movement.
Carl Rogers' work was the beginning of the movement
What was Rogers' definition of psychotherapy? - ✔✔ correct answer "The releasing of an already-
existing capacity in a potentially competent individual"
Psychotherapy is a RELATIONSHIP categorized by high levels of what three characteristics? (aka
therapeutic triad/facilitative traits) - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Accurate Empathy
2. Non-possessive Warmth
3. Genuineness (aka congruence)
Psychoanalysis is a methodology, while "psychodynamic" literally refers to what dynamic? - ✔✔
correct answer The dynamic struggle between the Ego and the Id and/or the Superego
Was Rogers' view of human nature positive or negative? - ✔✔ correct answer Positive! Humans are
trustworthy and positive
What is an organismic valuing system? - ✔✔ correct answer What's right for the person and what's
right for others
What is Rogers' definition of psychotherapy? - ✔✔ correct answer The releasing of an already
existing capacity in a potentially competent individual
What is meant by using the 'I' message? - ✔✔ correct answer Speaking from the first person, not
using judgement, expressing things as how they make "me" feel
Part of providing warmth in person-centered therapy is avoiding criticism but also to avoid what? -
✔✔ correct answer Positive judgement
Process is ______ and content is ______ - ✔✔ correct answer Process is HOW and content is WHAT
In person-centered therapy, is process or content important to the therapist? - ✔✔ correct answer
Process
,507 Final Exam
What is Emotion Focused Therapy? - ✔✔ correct answer An evidence based combination of person-
centered therapy and more active aspects of Gestalt and existential therapies.
What are 7 differences between classic psychoanalysis vs psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theory? -
✔✔ correct answer 1. Couch vs sitting and face therapist
2. Blank screen vs empathetic responses from therapist
3. Non-disclosure by therapist vs some modest disclosure
4. Non-problem solving vs some modest disclosure
5. Long term multiple days/wk vs fewer sessions
6. Working with fantasy material vs focus more on pressing practical issues
7. Me and me and transferiential relationship with therapist vs me and me, me and the therapist,
and me and others in my life
The psychodynamic theory has a deterministic view of human nature. What does that mean? - ✔✔
correct answer Human nature is determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivations, and
biological and instinctual drives that evolve through key psychosexual stages in the first 6 yrs of life
What does libido mean in psychodynamic therapies? - ✔✔ correct answer Libido originally referred
to as sexual energy. Broadened to include all of life instincts that serve as survival mechanisms,
support growth, development and creativity. Life instincts include all pleasurable acts
What is the death instinct in psychodynamic therapies? - ✔✔ correct answer The aggressive drive.
Unconscious wish to die, hurt self or others. Goal is to manage aggressive drive. Belief is that sexual
and aggressive drives powerful determinants of why people act as they do
According to psychodynamic therapies, the goal of life is gaining ____ and avoiding ___ - ✔✔ correct
answer The goal of life is gaining pleasure and avoiding pain
What is the id? - ✔✔ correct answer Pleasure principle Lacks organization, blind, demanding,
insistent. Illogical.
PRIMARILY UNCONSCIOUS
What is the superego? - ✔✔ correct answer Judicial branch of personality. Includes moral code,
strives for perfection.
Functions to inhibit id impulses
, 507 Final Exam
What is the ego? - ✔✔ correct answer Reality Principle
Contact with external world of reality, mediates, realistic, logical
What is the difference between repression and suppression? - ✔✔ correct answer Repression: you
don't know you're doing it
Suppression: You are actively doing this
What are 6 types of clinical evidence of the unconscious? - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Dreams- symbolic
representation of uncousious needs, wishes and conflicts
2. Slips of the tongue and forgetting
3. Posthypnotic suggestions
4. Material derived from free association
5. Material derived from projective techniques
6. Symbolic content of psychotic symptoms
What is the psychodynamic theory definition of anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer Anxiety is a state of
tension that motivates us to do something.
What are the three types of anxiety defined by psychodynamic theory? - ✔✔ correct answer Reality,
Neurotic, and Moral
What is Reality Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer fear of danger from external world. Is appropriate to
real degree of threat
What is the Neurotic Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer Fear that instincts will get out of hand and cause
one to do something which will result in punishment
What is Moral Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer A fear of one's own conscience
What is the ego defense mechanism repression? - ✔✔ correct answer basis of many other ego
defenses and of neurotic disorders. Threatening or painful thoughts and feelings excluded from
awareness. Involuntary removal of something from consciousness. Most painful events of first 5-6 yrs
of life buried but influence later behavior
What is the "Third Force?" - ✔✔ correct answer Roughly is the Humanistic/Existential movement.
Carl Rogers' work was the beginning of the movement
What was Rogers' definition of psychotherapy? - ✔✔ correct answer "The releasing of an already-
existing capacity in a potentially competent individual"
Psychotherapy is a RELATIONSHIP categorized by high levels of what three characteristics? (aka
therapeutic triad/facilitative traits) - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Accurate Empathy
2. Non-possessive Warmth
3. Genuineness (aka congruence)
Psychoanalysis is a methodology, while "psychodynamic" literally refers to what dynamic? - ✔✔
correct answer The dynamic struggle between the Ego and the Id and/or the Superego
Was Rogers' view of human nature positive or negative? - ✔✔ correct answer Positive! Humans are
trustworthy and positive
What is an organismic valuing system? - ✔✔ correct answer What's right for the person and what's
right for others
What is Rogers' definition of psychotherapy? - ✔✔ correct answer The releasing of an already
existing capacity in a potentially competent individual
What is meant by using the 'I' message? - ✔✔ correct answer Speaking from the first person, not
using judgement, expressing things as how they make "me" feel
Part of providing warmth in person-centered therapy is avoiding criticism but also to avoid what? -
✔✔ correct answer Positive judgement
Process is ______ and content is ______ - ✔✔ correct answer Process is HOW and content is WHAT
In person-centered therapy, is process or content important to the therapist? - ✔✔ correct answer
Process
,507 Final Exam
What is Emotion Focused Therapy? - ✔✔ correct answer An evidence based combination of person-
centered therapy and more active aspects of Gestalt and existential therapies.
What are 7 differences between classic psychoanalysis vs psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theory? -
✔✔ correct answer 1. Couch vs sitting and face therapist
2. Blank screen vs empathetic responses from therapist
3. Non-disclosure by therapist vs some modest disclosure
4. Non-problem solving vs some modest disclosure
5. Long term multiple days/wk vs fewer sessions
6. Working with fantasy material vs focus more on pressing practical issues
7. Me and me and transferiential relationship with therapist vs me and me, me and the therapist,
and me and others in my life
The psychodynamic theory has a deterministic view of human nature. What does that mean? - ✔✔
correct answer Human nature is determined by irrational forces, unconscious motivations, and
biological and instinctual drives that evolve through key psychosexual stages in the first 6 yrs of life
What does libido mean in psychodynamic therapies? - ✔✔ correct answer Libido originally referred
to as sexual energy. Broadened to include all of life instincts that serve as survival mechanisms,
support growth, development and creativity. Life instincts include all pleasurable acts
What is the death instinct in psychodynamic therapies? - ✔✔ correct answer The aggressive drive.
Unconscious wish to die, hurt self or others. Goal is to manage aggressive drive. Belief is that sexual
and aggressive drives powerful determinants of why people act as they do
According to psychodynamic therapies, the goal of life is gaining ____ and avoiding ___ - ✔✔ correct
answer The goal of life is gaining pleasure and avoiding pain
What is the id? - ✔✔ correct answer Pleasure principle Lacks organization, blind, demanding,
insistent. Illogical.
PRIMARILY UNCONSCIOUS
What is the superego? - ✔✔ correct answer Judicial branch of personality. Includes moral code,
strives for perfection.
Functions to inhibit id impulses
, 507 Final Exam
What is the ego? - ✔✔ correct answer Reality Principle
Contact with external world of reality, mediates, realistic, logical
What is the difference between repression and suppression? - ✔✔ correct answer Repression: you
don't know you're doing it
Suppression: You are actively doing this
What are 6 types of clinical evidence of the unconscious? - ✔✔ correct answer 1. Dreams- symbolic
representation of uncousious needs, wishes and conflicts
2. Slips of the tongue and forgetting
3. Posthypnotic suggestions
4. Material derived from free association
5. Material derived from projective techniques
6. Symbolic content of psychotic symptoms
What is the psychodynamic theory definition of anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer Anxiety is a state of
tension that motivates us to do something.
What are the three types of anxiety defined by psychodynamic theory? - ✔✔ correct answer Reality,
Neurotic, and Moral
What is Reality Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer fear of danger from external world. Is appropriate to
real degree of threat
What is the Neurotic Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer Fear that instincts will get out of hand and cause
one to do something which will result in punishment
What is Moral Anxiety? - ✔✔ correct answer A fear of one's own conscience
What is the ego defense mechanism repression? - ✔✔ correct answer basis of many other ego
defenses and of neurotic disorders. Threatening or painful thoughts and feelings excluded from
awareness. Involuntary removal of something from consciousness. Most painful events of first 5-6 yrs
of life buried but influence later behavior
