AP Psychology Exam review

 Vic is encouraged to take charge of the therapy session and his therapist uses an active listening approach to mirror back the feelings he hears from him.  Which therapy is most likely being described?

• client-centered therapy
• cognitive therapy
• psychodynamic therapy
• existential therapy

According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the need to have respect for ourselves and to be valued by others is classified within the category of

• physiological needs
• safety needs
• belongingness needs
• esteem needs

Staff members at a mental hospital do not respond to patients who use threats, but praise patients who are courteous. Which psychotherapeutic approach is being used?

• assertiveness training
• cognitive therapy
• behavioral therapy
• humanistic therapy

Behavior therapists emphasize which of the following in their treatment of clients?

• freedom of choice about their future
• uncovering of unconscious defense mechanisms
• responses that have been reinforced in the past
• repressed aggressive impulses

Which of the following is a type of therapy for alcoholism that involves the administration of a drug that will induce nausea after a person consumes alcohol?

• aversion
• implosive
• flooding
• rational-emotive

 Saying whatever comes to mind, even if it seems senseless, painful, or embarrassing, is part of the Freudian technique known as

• unconditional positive regard
• free association
• non-directive therapy
• transference

A therapist that engages in reflective listening, non-directive therapy, and has unconditional positive regard for the client is probably

• cognitive
• behavioral
• humanistic
• psychodynamic

In rational-emotive therapy (cognitive therapy)

• clients are encouraged to take responsibility for their own choices

• clients learn to challenge irrational beliefs

• the therapist seeks to have the client discover rational insights on his or her own

• irrational elements of the unconscious are made to conform to reality

a behavioral system has been implemented in which the adolescents earn points for target behaviors like getting up on time, making beds, attending class, etc. They are allowed to exchange their earned points for privileges, activities, etc. This system is called ____ and is based on ________

• time out; extinction
• systematic desensitation; gradual exposure
• token economy; reinforcement
• primary reinforcement; non-reward

Which of the following correctly lists Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs from bottom to top?

• Safety, physiological, esteem
• Physiological, safety, esteem, belonging, self-actualization
• Physiological, safety, belonging, esteem, self-actualization
• Basic, subordinate, superordinate