ACTUAL Exam Questions And CORRECT
Answers
Indivisible Self - CORRECT ANSWER - Wellness model based on Adler's theory, has 17
wellness dimensions
Therapeutic Alliance - CORRECT ANSWER - Most important predictor of therapy
success
Resistance - CORRECT ANSWER - Way to control anxiety (Freud), noncompliance with
homework, negative social influence - these are all causes of what in therapy?
Big Five - CORRECT ANSWER - Openness
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism OCEAN
Transference - CORRECT ANSWER - Client applies feelings about someone else to the
therapist
Ego Psychology - CORRECT ANSWER - Help resolve conflict to lead to more
independent ego; neo-Freudian; ego more important than id; Erikson
Interpersonal Psychoanalysis - CORRECT ANSWER - Henry Stack Sullivan - focus on
current interactions and relationships; neo-Freudian; less emphasis on past
, Object Relations Theory - CORRECT ANSWER - Personality is developed through early
parent-child interaction - may encounter splitting, seeing people in all or nothing terms - modern
psychodynamic theory
Inferiority Complex - CORRECT ANSWER - Term coined by Adler, feeling that you're
not as good as others
Birth Order - CORRECT ANSWER - Adler - believed personality influenced by number
and order of siblings
Fictions - CORRECT ANSWER - Adler - people's beliefs about themselves and others that
are false
Individuation - CORRECT ANSWER - Goal of Jungian psychology, discovering your
inner self
Archetypes - CORRECT ANSWER - Templates for human thought and behavior - ex.
persona, shadow, animus/anima
Amplification - CORRECT ANSWER - Jungian technique of comparing dreams to myth
or fairy tale
Active Imagination - CORRECT ANSWER - Jungian techniques of having clients talk to
characters in their dreams
Explication - CORRECT ANSWER - Jungian technique of helping clients find out why
certain things were in their dreams
Adlerian - CORRECT ANSWER - What kind of techniques are these: Encouragement
Acting 'as if'
"How would your life be different if you were well?"