A. a result of sudden insight about some childhood experience
B. a sign of an impending psychosis
C. a result of free association
D. a result of transference
Related Mcqs:
- Mr. Choi’s therapist wants to help him become aware of his conflicting childhood feelings of love and hate for his parents. The therapist’s goal best reflects a primary aim of:
A. operant conditioning techniques
B. psychoanalysis
C. cognitive therapy
D. client – centered therapy - You make an appointment to see a therapist and, as you are waiting, you notice that a large number of books on the therapist’s shelves deal with the work of Aaron Beck. You might expect that this therapist will
A. use counterconditioning to reverse maladaptive behaviors
B. help you discover the underlying cause of your aggressive behavior
C. help you recognize and change negative thoughts and maladaptive beliefs
D. provide a supportive emotional environment while allowing you to determine the pace and direction of your therapy - In order to help MR. Eberstadt overcome his addiction to alcohol, his therapist first attempted to discover whether the substance dependency was somehow a reaction on his wife’s behavior. The therapist’s concern is most likely to be characteristic of a:
A. biomedical therapist
B. psychoanalyst
C. family therapist
D. cognitive therapist - Haley thinks Keith’s silence indicates that he’s angry, so she avoids talking to quietness signifies that she’s angry and wants to be left alone. This situation best illustrates:
A. superordinate goals
B. scapegoating
C. mirror- image perceptions
D. the reciprocity norm - Mr. Noor mistakenly believed that a single intake interview in which he simply described his numerous symptoms to a therapist was a treatment for his distress. His immediate relief from many of his symptoms following this session best illustrates:
A. transference
B. counterconditioning
C. unconditional positive regard
D. the placebo effect - During a marriage counselling session, the therapist suggests to Mr. and Mrs. Gallo that they each restate their spouse’s comments before making their own. The therapist was applying a technique most closely associated with:
A. client – centered therapy
B. psychoanalysis
C. systematic desensitization
D. cognitive – behavior therapy. - Kammy vividly imagines being abused by her own mother while her therapist triggers eye movements by waving a finger in front of Kammy’s eyes. The therapist is apparently using a technique known as:
A. EMDR
B. virtual reality exposure therapy
C. meta – analysis
D. transference - Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s” in all her college courses meant she was incompetent. Her therapist calmly challenged this assertion, commenting, “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.
A. eclectic
B. psychoanalytic
C. cognitive
D. behavior - While driving his girlfriend to work Nate narrowly avoided a collision with another vehicle. Moments later, he experienced an unusually warm glow of effection for his girlfriend. His romantic reaction is best explained in terms of:
A. the more exposure effect
B. social exchange theory
C. social facilitation
D. the two- factor theory of emotion - Which TWO of 1: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific moods.
2: Automatic thoughts are spontaneously generated thoughts associated with specific situations.
3: In collaborative empiricism, the therapist formulates a hypothesis and then tests its validity himself.
4: In collaborative empiricism, the client is asked to formulate a hypothesis and than helps the therapist to
test its validity.the following definitions key features of Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy are accurate?A. 1 & 2
B. 2 & 3
C. 3 & 4
D. 2 & 4
