PSYU2222 Final EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS < RECENT VERSION
2025/2026 > SURE TO PASS!!
1. WHO Definition of Health - ANSWER ✓ "a complete
state of physical, mental and social wellbeing... not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
2. What is the second step in Systematic Desensitization?
- ANSWER ✓ Training the client in deep muscle
relaxation and cognitive restructuring
3. What is the final step in Systematic Desensitization? -
ANSWER ✓ Having the client work through the
hierarchy while remaining relaxed and imagining each
stimulus
4. Aversion therapy - ANSWER ✓ Highly controversial
where an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus
that elicits an undesirable response.
,5. 2. Behavioural perspective - ANSWER ✓ Operant
conditioning (Skinner & Thorndike) socialisation re
"right" and "wrong" behaviour through
positive/negative reinforcement and positive/negative
punishment.
6. What is observational learning according to Bandura? -
ANSWER ✓ Observational learning is a social-
cognitive-behavioral approach to learning through
modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and shaping.
7. What is vicarious learning in the context of Bandura's
theory? - ANSWER ✓ Vicarious learning involves
learning through live models, video-taped examples,
and group situations where a model is rewarded or
punished for a behavior, shaping one's own desired
behavior.
8. What are some applications of the behavioural
perspective in psychology? - ANSWER ✓ Applications
include childhood disorders, interpersonal
communication, and social skills training.
,9. Mind-Body Connection - ANSWER ✓ In biofeedback,
a bodily function is monitored, and information about
the function is fed back to the person so that they can
develop more control over the physiological process.
10. What is a case conceptualization? - ANSWER ✓ A
hypothesis about the psychological mechanisms that
cause and maintain an individual's symptoms and
problems.
11. When is a case conceptualization useful? - ANSWER
✓ When there is a comorbidity, no treatment manual,
treatment includes a multidisciplinary team, or
problems arise like non-adherence or the therapeutic
relationship deteriorates.
12. What does case conceptualisation provide? -
ANSWER ✓ a method and clinical strategy for building
rapport, obtaining and organising information about a
client, understanding and explaining the client's
situation and maladaptive patterns, guiding and
focusing treatment, anticipating challenges and
, roadblocks, and preparing for successful termination.
should be developed with the client to ensure
collaboration, engagement, and increase adherence to
treatment.
13. What does case conceptualisation include? -
ANSWER ✓ assessing patient/client
concerns/difficulties, establishing a treatment plan (goal
setting) and identifying treatment obstacles.
14. A good treatment plan that will enable therapists to
speak intelligently about their client in supervision,
collaboration, and consultation.
15. When should case conceptualization begin? -
ANSWER ✓ During the first session and refined as
treatment progresses.
16. What should happen during the first session in terms
of assessment? - ANSWER ✓ An assessment of current
difficulties and creation of a problem list.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS < RECENT VERSION
2025/2026 > SURE TO PASS!!
1. WHO Definition of Health - ANSWER ✓ "a complete
state of physical, mental and social wellbeing... not
merely the absence of disease or infirmity"
2. What is the second step in Systematic Desensitization?
- ANSWER ✓ Training the client in deep muscle
relaxation and cognitive restructuring
3. What is the final step in Systematic Desensitization? -
ANSWER ✓ Having the client work through the
hierarchy while remaining relaxed and imagining each
stimulus
4. Aversion therapy - ANSWER ✓ Highly controversial
where an aversive stimulus is paired with a stimulus
that elicits an undesirable response.
,5. 2. Behavioural perspective - ANSWER ✓ Operant
conditioning (Skinner & Thorndike) socialisation re
"right" and "wrong" behaviour through
positive/negative reinforcement and positive/negative
punishment.
6. What is observational learning according to Bandura? -
ANSWER ✓ Observational learning is a social-
cognitive-behavioral approach to learning through
modeling, behavioral rehearsal, and shaping.
7. What is vicarious learning in the context of Bandura's
theory? - ANSWER ✓ Vicarious learning involves
learning through live models, video-taped examples,
and group situations where a model is rewarded or
punished for a behavior, shaping one's own desired
behavior.
8. What are some applications of the behavioural
perspective in psychology? - ANSWER ✓ Applications
include childhood disorders, interpersonal
communication, and social skills training.
,9. Mind-Body Connection - ANSWER ✓ In biofeedback,
a bodily function is monitored, and information about
the function is fed back to the person so that they can
develop more control over the physiological process.
10. What is a case conceptualization? - ANSWER ✓ A
hypothesis about the psychological mechanisms that
cause and maintain an individual's symptoms and
problems.
11. When is a case conceptualization useful? - ANSWER
✓ When there is a comorbidity, no treatment manual,
treatment includes a multidisciplinary team, or
problems arise like non-adherence or the therapeutic
relationship deteriorates.
12. What does case conceptualisation provide? -
ANSWER ✓ a method and clinical strategy for building
rapport, obtaining and organising information about a
client, understanding and explaining the client's
situation and maladaptive patterns, guiding and
focusing treatment, anticipating challenges and
, roadblocks, and preparing for successful termination.
should be developed with the client to ensure
collaboration, engagement, and increase adherence to
treatment.
13. What does case conceptualisation include? -
ANSWER ✓ assessing patient/client
concerns/difficulties, establishing a treatment plan (goal
setting) and identifying treatment obstacles.
14. A good treatment plan that will enable therapists to
speak intelligently about their client in supervision,
collaboration, and consultation.
15. When should case conceptualization begin? -
ANSWER ✓ During the first session and refined as
treatment progresses.
16. What should happen during the first session in terms
of assessment? - ANSWER ✓ An assessment of current
difficulties and creation of a problem list.
