28 ❯ STEP 2. Determine Your Test Readiness
- Psychoanalytic therapy and humanistic therapy
differ in that psychoanalytic therapy focuses on
(A) the present, and humanistic therapy focuses
on the future
(B) subconscious and preconscious thoughts,
and humanistic therapy focuses on conscious
thoughts
(C) curing illness, and humanistic therapy fo cuses
on preventing illness
(D) fixations, and humanistic therapy focuses on
insight
(E) probing past feelings, and humanistic therapy
focuses on exploring feelings as they occur- Clients who drink too much alcohol are some-
times treated with a drug that causes nausea if the
client consumes alcohol. This type of therapy is
known as
(A) systematic desensitization
(B) progressive relaxation
(C) client-centered therapy
(D) aversive conditioning
(E) psychodynamic therapy- Light therapy, consisting of exposure to bright
light in the morning, has been successful in reliev-
ing symptoms of
(A) dissociative amnesia
(B) seasonal affective disorder
(C) schizophrenia
(D) obsessive-compulsive disorder
(E) Alzheimer’s disease- Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil help elevate mood by
(A) increasing the availability of serotonin to post-
synaptic neurons
(B) decreasing the availability of norepinephrine
to postsynaptic neurons
(C) facilitating reuptake of serotonin
(D) acting as agonists of dopamine
(E) preventing reuptake of dopamine- Which of the following would not occur in Aaron
Beck’s therapy for depression?
(A) gentle questions to reveal irrational thinking
(B) persuasion of the client to change his percep-
tion of his actions
(C) recognition of negative self-talk
(D) historical reconstruction, interpretation of
resistance, and transference
(E) helping clients make more realistic appraisals- A college professor asked a biology teacher to let
a college student observe her teaching for one
period. After the student observed the teacher, the
professor asked the teacher to accept the student
as a student teacher for 10 weeks. She agreed. The
strategy the professor used to get the teacher to
agree is called
(A) cognitive dissonance
(B) foot-in-the-door phenomenon
(C) obedience to authority
(D) normative social influence
(E) conformity- As part of each lab, Ms. Geraci requires her stu-
dents to wash their glassware so it is clean for the
next class. She has found that the glassware is
cleaner when students wash it in full view of their
classmates. This is best explained by
(A) deindividuation
(B) the mere exposure effect
(C) social facilitation
(D) social loafing
(E) superordinate goals- In Heartsaver AED training, the American Heart
Association teaches rescuers to direct specific
people standing around the victim to do specific
jobs, such as calling 911. Directing specific people
to perform these jobs prevents
(A) the victim from dying
(B) people from feeling scared
(C) group polarization
(D) the bystander effect
(E) a social trap