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Myers 7th Edition - Chapter 17 Vocabulary

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show An emotionally charged, confiding interaction between a trained therapist and someone who suffers from psychological difficulties.  
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Eclectic approach   show
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show Sigmund Freud's therapeutic technique. Freud believed the patient's free associations, resistances, dreams, and transferences - and the therapist's interpretations of them - released previous repressed feelings, allowing the patient to gain self-insight.  
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show In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.  
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show In psychoanalysis, the analysist's noting supposed dream meanings, resistances, and other significant behaviors in order to promote insight.  
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show In psychoanalysis, the patient's transfer of emotions linked with other relationships (such as love or hatred for a parent.)  
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show A humanistic therapy, developed by carl rogers, in which the therapist uses techniques such as active listening within a genuine, accepting, empathic enivoroment to facilitate the clients' growth.  
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Active listening   show
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Behavior therapy   show
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show A behavior therapy procedure that conditions new responses to stimuli that trigger unwanted behaviors; based on the classical conditioning. Includes systematic desensitization and aversive conditioning.  
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show Behavioral techniques, such as systemiatic desensitization, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imagination or reality) to the things they fear and avoid.  
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Systematic desensitization   show
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Aversive conditioning   show
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show An operant conditioning procedure that rewards desired behavior. A patient exchanges a token of some sort, earned for exhibiting the desired bahvior, for various priviledges or treats.  
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Cognitive therapy   show
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Cognitive-behavior therapy   show
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show Therapy that treats the family as a system. Views an indivual's unwated behaviors as influenced by or directed at other family members; attempts to guide family members toward positive relationships and improved communication.  
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show The tendency for extremes of unusual scores to fall back (regress) toward their average.  
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show A procedure for statistically combining the results of many different research studies.  
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show The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behavior.  
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Lithium   show
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show A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized pateint.  
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show Surgery that remoes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior.  
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Lobotomy   show
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