NR 605: THERAPY: FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
1) Who came up with CBT -- Answer ✔✔ Albert Ellis
2) Any type of therapy that seeks to improve the functioning of a family as a unit --
Answer ✔✔ family therapy
3) The family is examined in the context of a multigenerational framework in which
the family is a complex, self-regulating unit that seeks to maintain homeostasis --
Answer ✔✔ systemic family therapy
4) The goal of systemic family therapy -- Answer ✔✔ help members increase their
self-differentiation and reduce emotional turmoil
5) Symptoms and family problems are related to a dysfunctional family organization
-- Answer ✔✔ structural approach
,6) Goal of the structural approach -- Answer ✔✔ create a more effective family
structure with functional subsystems, clear boundaries, open communication, fair
rules, and a strong parental hierarchy
7) Believes that dysfunctional family patterns are deeply embedded in the family and
are maintained and perpetuated by family members' actions and attempts to solve
the problem -- Answer ✔✔ strategic approach
8) Short-term form of therapy used with families and couples grounded in the
humanistic-existential school of thought -- Answer ✔✔ emotionally focused
9) Improve the interactions between two individuals who are in conflict with one
another -- Answer ✔✔ couples therapy
10) Part of the brain responsible for higher mental functions. Regulates attention,
feelings, and imagination. Controls language. Allows us to feel love and heartache
-- Answer ✔✔ primate/ Human- Cortex
11) The part of the brain that is responsible for feelings, memory, emotions, and
reward. Allows us to feel content or frustrated -- Answer ✔✔ Mammalian brain-
subcortical region
12) The part of the brain responsible got survival and maintenance, regulates
heartbeat and vital signs. Allows us to feel peace or fear -- Answer ✔✔ Reptilian
brain (stem and cerebellum)
13) "fear center" of the brain stores the physical impact of negative emotions --
Answer ✔✔ amygdala
14) During inescapable trauma, what state may a person go in to adapt -- Answer
✔✔ Shutdown
, 15) A client is hyperaroused, tense, has an increased HR and BP, and wide eyes.
Which traumatic response is occurring? -- Answer ✔✔ Freeze response
16) A client is hypoaroused, with flaccid muscles, decreased HR and BP, is unable to
speak, and has a blank stare. Which traumatic response is occurring -- Answer
✔✔ Shutdown/ collapse
17) A patient s not able to remember what a tree is. What part of memory is affected
-- Answer ✔✔ semantic
18) A patient is not able to remember who was at the party or what time it started -
- Answer ✔✔ episodic memory
19) A patient states they feel shameful every time they go to the gas station because
they once stole a candy bar -- Answer ✔✔ Implicit memory
20) A patient who has driven for the past 15 years no longer remembers how to
after a trauma -- Answer ✔✔ Procedural
21) Which part of the brain controls semantic memory -- Answer ✔✔ temporal lobe
and inferior parietal cortex
22) Which part of the brain controls episodic memory -- Answer ✔✔ hippocampus
23) Which part of the brain controls emotional memory -- Answer ✔✔ amygdala
24) Which part of the brain controls procedural memory? -- Answer ✔✔ striatum
SOLUTIONS
1) Who came up with CBT -- Answer ✔✔ Albert Ellis
2) Any type of therapy that seeks to improve the functioning of a family as a unit --
Answer ✔✔ family therapy
3) The family is examined in the context of a multigenerational framework in which
the family is a complex, self-regulating unit that seeks to maintain homeostasis --
Answer ✔✔ systemic family therapy
4) The goal of systemic family therapy -- Answer ✔✔ help members increase their
self-differentiation and reduce emotional turmoil
5) Symptoms and family problems are related to a dysfunctional family organization
-- Answer ✔✔ structural approach
,6) Goal of the structural approach -- Answer ✔✔ create a more effective family
structure with functional subsystems, clear boundaries, open communication, fair
rules, and a strong parental hierarchy
7) Believes that dysfunctional family patterns are deeply embedded in the family and
are maintained and perpetuated by family members' actions and attempts to solve
the problem -- Answer ✔✔ strategic approach
8) Short-term form of therapy used with families and couples grounded in the
humanistic-existential school of thought -- Answer ✔✔ emotionally focused
9) Improve the interactions between two individuals who are in conflict with one
another -- Answer ✔✔ couples therapy
10) Part of the brain responsible for higher mental functions. Regulates attention,
feelings, and imagination. Controls language. Allows us to feel love and heartache
-- Answer ✔✔ primate/ Human- Cortex
11) The part of the brain that is responsible for feelings, memory, emotions, and
reward. Allows us to feel content or frustrated -- Answer ✔✔ Mammalian brain-
subcortical region
12) The part of the brain responsible got survival and maintenance, regulates
heartbeat and vital signs. Allows us to feel peace or fear -- Answer ✔✔ Reptilian
brain (stem and cerebellum)
13) "fear center" of the brain stores the physical impact of negative emotions --
Answer ✔✔ amygdala
14) During inescapable trauma, what state may a person go in to adapt -- Answer
✔✔ Shutdown
, 15) A client is hyperaroused, tense, has an increased HR and BP, and wide eyes.
Which traumatic response is occurring? -- Answer ✔✔ Freeze response
16) A client is hypoaroused, with flaccid muscles, decreased HR and BP, is unable to
speak, and has a blank stare. Which traumatic response is occurring -- Answer
✔✔ Shutdown/ collapse
17) A patient s not able to remember what a tree is. What part of memory is affected
-- Answer ✔✔ semantic
18) A patient is not able to remember who was at the party or what time it started -
- Answer ✔✔ episodic memory
19) A patient states they feel shameful every time they go to the gas station because
they once stole a candy bar -- Answer ✔✔ Implicit memory
20) A patient who has driven for the past 15 years no longer remembers how to
after a trauma -- Answer ✔✔ Procedural
21) Which part of the brain controls semantic memory -- Answer ✔✔ temporal lobe
and inferior parietal cortex
22) Which part of the brain controls episodic memory -- Answer ✔✔ hippocampus
23) Which part of the brain controls emotional memory -- Answer ✔✔ amygdala
24) Which part of the brain controls procedural memory? -- Answer ✔✔ striatum
