Describe the four core features offered by effective therapy, and explain why each is important
What will be an ideal response?
Answer will include that perhaps more than any other single factor, effective therapy provides (1) a therapeutic alliance, a caring relationship that unites the client and therapist as they work together to solve the client's problems. The strength of this alliance has a major impact on whether therapy succeeds. The basis for this relationship is emotional rapport, warmth, friendship, understanding, acceptance, and empathy. (2) Therapy offers a protected setting in which emotional catharsis (release) can take place. Therapy is a sanctuary in which the client is free to express fears, anxieties, and personal secrets without fearing rejection or loss of confidentiality. (3) All therapies to some extent offer an explanation or rationale for the client's suffering. Additionally, they propose a line of action that will end this suffering.
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A. health care professionals B. psychologists and researchers C. educators D. attorneys
Researchers looking for a psychological basis of schizophrenia ____
a. have primarily focused on brain chemistry b. might study theory of mind c. have located a combination of genes that are responsible for schizophrenia d. have primarily focused their research on brain pathology
When Ken kisses Barbie, his heart races. For a month, Barbie snapped her fingers just before she kissed him. She stopped snapping her fingers, but now whenever Ken hears someone snapping their fingers, his heart begins to race. This is an example of __________ conditioning, and finger snapping is the __________.
A. classical; conditioned stimulus B. operant; conditioned stimulus C. classical; primary reinforcer D. operant; primary reinforcer
In an OFF cell with a receptive field that contains a center and surround, light would cause excitation if light were shone:
a. in the center. b. in the surround. c. filling the surround. d. in both the center and surround.