Ap Flashcards

13455397370	Psychotherapy	treatment involving psychological techniques	0
13455397371	biomedical therapy	prescribed medications or procedures that act directly on the person's physiology	1
13455397372	eclectic approach	an approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from various forms of therapy	2
13455397373	Sigmund Freud	founder of psychoanalysis	3
13455397374	interpretation	in psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight	4
13455397375	Psychoanalysis	Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previously repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.	5
13455397376	Transference	in psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent)	6
13455397377	Resistance	in psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material	7
13455397378	psychodynamic therapy	therapy deriving from the psychoanalytic tradition that views individuals as responding to unconscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seeks to enhance self-insight	8
13455397379	insight therapies	A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses	9
13455397380	client-centered therapy	a humanistic therapy, developed by Carl Rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth. (Also called person-centered therapy.)	10
13455397381	active listening	empathetic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies	11
13455397382	unconditional positive regard	according to Rogers, an attitude of total acceptance toward another person	12
13455397383	behavior therapy	therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors	13
13455397384	counterconditioning	behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning	14
13455397385	exposure therapy	therapy that confronts clients with what they fear with the goal of reducing the fear	15
13455397386	systematic desensitization	A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias.	16
13455397387	virtual reality exposure therapy	anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears	17
13455397388	aversive conditioning	a type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)	18
13455397389	B.F. Skinner	operant conditioning	19
13455397390	token economy	an operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token of some sort for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange the tokens for various privileges or treats	20
13455397391	behavior modification	the use of operant conditioning techniques to bring about desired changes in behavior	21
13455397392	Ivan Pavlov	classical conditioning	22
13455410705	Carl Rogers	Humanisic; self-concept and unconditional positive regard drive personality	23