Question 1

Walter and Mindy are having marital problems.Their therapist is using behavioral rehearsal techniques to augment their counseling sessions.Which of the following might one observe during one of their sessions?

Accepted Answer

The therapist will ask the couple to reverse roles and provide suggestions on how to communicate more effectively.

Question 2

Who is NOT engaging in response prevention?

Accepted Answer

Linus,who has a fear of contamination,is not allowed to visualize a germ-infested environment.

Question 3

Dr.Darling is using systematic desensitization in an attempt to alleviate Caroline's phobia of snakes.What might he include in her first session?

Accepted Answer

A picture of a snake

Question 4

Exposing patients to images of the stimuli they fear the most for prolonged periods is called

Accepted Answer

flooding.

Question 5

Little Dalton is having trouble making friends at school.His therapist,Dr.Liang,is using behavioral rehearsal techniques to teach him to be more assertive.Which of the following might occur?

Accepted Answer

Dr.Liang will pretend to be the new kid in school and model several different approaches to iniating a conversation.

Question 6

Trina attempts to overcome her fear of clowns by learning how to shift from a feeling of tension to one of calm and relaxation.Next she is asked to imagine different situations,each more anxiety-provoking than the previous.She only proceeds to the next situation if she can maintain her feeling of relaxation.Trina's therapist is using __________ to remove her fear.

Accepted Answer

systematic desensitization

Question 7

In __________,patients are taught to relax as they are gradually exposed in a stepwise manner to what they fear.

Accepted Answer

systematic desensitization

Question 8

__________ is a crucial component of flooding,where therapists prevent patients from performing their typical avoidance behaviors.

Accepted Answer

Response prevention

Question 9

Token economies have been successful in each situation EXCEPT

Accepted Answer

treating major depression.

Question 10

Ellen is sitting in her therapist's office,going through scenarios that start off as calming but slowly progress until she starts getting anxious,until her therapist takes her back to a calming scene.Ellen is most likely engaged in

Accepted Answer

systematic desensitization.

Question 11

Sally is in therapy because she gets anxious when meeting new people.Her therapist suggests that they reverse roles,and practice introductions.Sally is engaging in

Accepted Answer

participant modeling.

Question 12

Therapists begin their systematic desensitization treatment by first

Accepted Answer

teaching patients to relax.

Question 13

Because the negative reinforcement of avoidance behavior often maintains many phobias and other anxiety-related disorders,exposure therapy often involves

Accepted Answer

response prevention.

Question 14

During systematic desensitization,the patient uses a(n)__________,or a "ladder" of situations to control the build-up of anxiety.

Accepted Answer

anxiety hierarchy

Question 15

Jared just found out that his boss is sending him to New York in two days.Jared has an intense fear of flying,but he cannot refuse his boss's orders.What type of therapy might you suggest he try?

Accepted Answer

Flooding

Question 16

Mrs.Castillo is a kindergarten teacher.Every time she observes one of her students sharing with or helping out another student,she gives them a behavioral coupon.At the end of the week,the students can exchange their coupons for pencils,crayons,and candy.What system is Mrs.Castillo w using?

Accepted Answer

Token economy

Question 17

__________ is commonly used with participant modeling techniques,where the patient and therapist role-play to learn and practice new skills.

Accepted Answer

Behavioral reversal

Question 18

Flooding and other forms of exposure therapy are used to allow one's fear to be

Accepted Answer

extinguished.

Question 19

__________ is a technique in which the therapist first models a problematic situation and then guides the patient through steps to comp with it unassisted.

Accepted Answer

Participant modeling

Question 20

How might Dr.Swanson treat a person with a social phobia using the technique of flooding?

Accepted Answer

Force him to go into the waiting room and deliver a 5-minute speech on anything of his choice to the other patients waiting to be seen.

Quiz 14: Psychological and Biological Treatments