General Psychology Chapter 13 - Mia's version(100% Correct Answers)
Psychodynamic therapy - (answer)Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and
unnavveptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with
problems more effectively.
Psychoanalysis - (answer)Freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious
thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their in controlling behavior.
Transference - (answer)The transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been
originally directed to a patient's parents or other authority figures.
Behavior treatment approaches - (answer)Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of
learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are
both learned.
aversive conditioning - (answer)A form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by
pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior.
systematic desensitization - (answer)A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-
producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.
Exposure - (answer)A behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are confronted either suddenly
or gradually with a stimulus that they fear.
Dialectical behavior therapy - (answer)A form of treatment in which the force is on getting people to
accept who they are regardless of whether it matches their ideal.
Cognitive treatment approaches - (answer)Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more
adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves.
Cognitive-behavioral approach - (answer)A treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of
learning to change the way people think.
Psychodynamic therapy - (answer)Therapy that seeks to bring unresolved past conflicts and
unnavveptable impulses from the unconscious into the conscious, where patients may deal with
problems more effectively.
Psychoanalysis - (answer)Freudian psychotherapy in which the goal is to release hidden unconscious
thoughts and feelings in order to reduce their in controlling behavior.
Transference - (answer)The transfer of feelings to a psychoanalyst of love or anger that had been
originally directed to a patient's parents or other authority figures.
Behavior treatment approaches - (answer)Treatment approaches that build on the basic processes of
learning, such as reinforcement and extinction, and assume that normal and abnormal behavior are
both learned.
aversive conditioning - (answer)A form of therapy that reduces the frequency of undesired behavior by
pairing an aversive, unpleasant stimulus with undesired behavior.
systematic desensitization - (answer)A behavioral technique in which gradual exposure to an anxiety-
producing stimulus is paired with relaxation to extinguish the response of anxiety.
Exposure - (answer)A behavioral treatment for anxiety in which people are confronted either suddenly
or gradually with a stimulus that they fear.
Dialectical behavior therapy - (answer)A form of treatment in which the force is on getting people to
accept who they are regardless of whether it matches their ideal.
Cognitive treatment approaches - (answer)Treatment approaches that teach people to think in more
adaptive ways by changing their dysfunctional cognitions about the world and themselves.
Cognitive-behavioral approach - (answer)A treatment approach that incorporates basic principles of
learning to change the way people think.
