Psychology Quiz 14

An approachto psychotherapy that uses techniques from various formsof therapy

Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth

Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. releasing previously reperessed feelings to allow patient to gain self-insight

In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material

In psychoanalysis, the analyst's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors and events in order to promote insight

In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer to the analyst of emotions linked with other relationships

Views individuals as responding to unconnscious forces and childhood experiences, and that seek to enhance self insight

A variety of therapies which aim to improve psychological functioning by increasing the client's awareness of underlying motives and defenses

A humanistic therapy, where therapists use techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic environment to facilitate clients' growth

Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies

A caring, accepting, nonjudgmental attitude

Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors

A behavior therapy procedure that uses classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors

Behavioral techniques, such as systematic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people to the things they fear and avoid

A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli