EPPP: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS

EPPP: CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS Healthy Style of Life (Alder) - Answer-- life is marked by goals that reflect optimism and confidence and contributing to welfare of others Unhealthy (Mistaken) Style of Life (Alder) - Answer-- life is characterized by self-centeredness, competativeness, and striving for personal power View of Pychopathology (Alder) - Answer-- metal disorders are characterized by maladaptive attempts to compensate for feelings of inferiority, a preoccupation with achieving personal power, and a lack of social interest Alderian Therapy - Answer-- therapy tries to understand patient's style of life and reorient patient to a more adaptive life style - uses lifestyle investigation to learn information about patient's family constellation, hidden goals, and basic mistakes (distorted beliefs and attitudes) Libido - Answer-- general psychic energy Assumptions of Jung's Analytical Psychotherapy - Answer-- behavior is determined not only by past events but also by future goals and aspirations - personality is the consequence of both conscious and unconscious factors - personality consists of two attitudes (extraversion and introversion) and four psychological functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting) - personality develops throughout life Personality Theory: Conscious (Jung) - Answer-- oriented toward the external world, governed by the ego, and represents individual's thoughts, ideas, feelings, perceptions, and memories Personality Theory: Personal Unconscious (Jung) - Answer-- contains experiences that were once conscious but are now repressed or forgotten