AP Psychology Unit 13: Therapy and Treatment

What has contributed to the decline of people being institutionalized? 

• Lobotomies
• ECT
• biomedical treatments like medication
• talk therapy 

Used to treat schizophrenia, functions by blocking dopamine receptor sites. 

• Mood-stabilizing medication
• Antidepressant medication
• Antianxiety medication
• Antipsychotic medication

Antianxiety medication could be used to treat:

• bipolar disorder

• dissociative identity disorder

• panic disorder

• schizophrenia

Which neurotransmitter is affected by antipsychotics?

• Dopamine
• Serotonin
• Norepinephrine
• Acetylcholine

Matt enters therapy to talk about some issues that have been causing him distress.  The therapist has earned a PhD and uses a variety of techniques to alleviate some of Matt’s distressing symptoms.  Matt is most likely seeing a _____

• psychiatrist
• clinical psychologist
• psychiatric social worker
• life coach

If a man who is a heavy smoker is given an electric shock every time he takes a puff on a cigarette, which behavior-modification techniques is being used?

• systematic desensitization
• modeling
• aversive conditioning
• punishment therapy

Carl Rogers is responsible for

• client-centered therapy
• psychoanalysis
• directive therapy
• behavioral therapy

Carena has a bad habit of biting her fingernails until her fingers bleed and have sores. Her therapist is teaching her how to not bite and pick at her fingernails using various learning principles. Her therapist is using

• behavioral therapy
• psychoanalysis
• humanistic therapy
• cognitive therapy

Which of the following is identified with client-centered therapy?

• providing advice, setting goals, and giving interpretations
• dream analysis, transference, and analysis of resistance
• unconditional positive regard, empathy, authenticity, and reflection
• goal-setting, desensitization, modeling, and recentering

In psychoanalysis, an emotional attachment to the therapist that symbolically represents other important relationships is called

• resistance
• identification
• transference
• free association