Positive Psychology Exam questions and
answers
Broaden-and-Bulid Theory - ✅✅positive emotions promote engagement, activity
Relative deprivation principle - ✅✅Perception that one is worse off than those to whom one
compares oneself decreases happiness
Humanist - ✅✅a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her
future and achieving personal growth
psychodynamic - ✅✅how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Behavioral - ✅✅the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we learn observable
responses
Cognitive - ✅✅having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding
eclectic therapy - ✅✅an approach to treatment in which the therapist uses whichever techniques
seem most useful and relevant for a given patient
Psychosurgery - ✅✅surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✅✅a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a
brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
nonmaleficence - ✅✅do no harm
Fidelity - ✅✅faithfulness
, Integrity - ✅✅honesty
Respect for rights and dignity - ✅✅includes respect for the rights of privacy, confidentiality, and self-
determination. Psychologists should recognize and respect differences among persons based on age,
gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability,
language, and socioeconomic status. Psychologists should also consider these factors when providing
psychological services. Furthermore, psychologists should try to eliminate the effect of biases based on
these factors, both in their own work and in the work of others.
Free associations - ✅✅in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person
relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Dream Analysis - ✅✅May use hypnosis, Rorschach, TAT
Person-centered - ✅✅therapist does not direct or interpret ITS ALL ABOUT YOU
active listening - ✅✅Therapist reflects emotional content of patients remarks; demonstrates G.A.E
through
Exposure therapies - ✅✅behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat
anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid
Systematic desenation - ✅✅slow, gradual presentation in relaxed environment
Aversion Therapy - ✅✅create aversion to alcohol, fingernails etc.
Token Economy - ✅✅exchange token for reward
Applied Behavior Analysis - ✅✅Used with autistic, ID, schizophrenia patients
answers
Broaden-and-Bulid Theory - ✅✅positive emotions promote engagement, activity
Relative deprivation principle - ✅✅Perception that one is worse off than those to whom one
compares oneself decreases happiness
Humanist - ✅✅a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her
future and achieving personal growth
psychodynamic - ✅✅how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts
Behavioral - ✅✅the perspective of psychological science that deals with how we learn observable
responses
Cognitive - ✅✅having to do with an organism's thinking and understanding
eclectic therapy - ✅✅an approach to treatment in which the therapist uses whichever techniques
seem most useful and relevant for a given patient
Psychosurgery - ✅✅surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✅✅a biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a
brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient
nonmaleficence - ✅✅do no harm
Fidelity - ✅✅faithfulness
, Integrity - ✅✅honesty
Respect for rights and dignity - ✅✅includes respect for the rights of privacy, confidentiality, and self-
determination. Psychologists should recognize and respect differences among persons based on age,
gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability,
language, and socioeconomic status. Psychologists should also consider these factors when providing
psychological services. Furthermore, psychologists should try to eliminate the effect of biases based on
these factors, both in their own work and in the work of others.
Free associations - ✅✅in psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person
relaxes and says whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing
Dream Analysis - ✅✅May use hypnosis, Rorschach, TAT
Person-centered - ✅✅therapist does not direct or interpret ITS ALL ABOUT YOU
active listening - ✅✅Therapist reflects emotional content of patients remarks; demonstrates G.A.E
through
Exposure therapies - ✅✅behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat
anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or actuality) to the things they fear and avoid
Systematic desenation - ✅✅slow, gradual presentation in relaxed environment
Aversion Therapy - ✅✅create aversion to alcohol, fingernails etc.
Token Economy - ✅✅exchange token for reward
Applied Behavior Analysis - ✅✅Used with autistic, ID, schizophrenia patients
