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EPPP CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY NEWEST 2024-2025
COMPLETE 280 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS/ GRADED A+
What are the basic biological drives in Freud's Structural Theory? - Correct Answer - Self Preservation Instincts, Sexual Instincts (libido), and Aggressive Drives
A structural family therapist would most likely attribute a family's problems to which of
the following:
- double bind communication
- enmeshment or disengagement
- family obligations and debts
- triangulation - Correct Answer - B. Structure family therapists are concerned with a
family's structure - this approach is associated with Salvadore Minuchin. Minuchin views a family's dysfunction as being the result of boundaries that are too flexible or permeable (enmeshment) or too rigid (disengagement).
Hypnosis is best described as a response to a suggestion involving:
- a measurable physiologic change
- alterations in memory, mood, and perception
- artificial sleep - Correct Answer - B. The mechanism underlying hypnosis continues to
allude researchers but is generally believed to be related to increased suggestibility.The unusual behaviors exhibited by hypnotized people seem to reflect alterations in memory, perception, and mood that occur in response to suggestion.
What is the goal in existential therapy? - Correct Answer - Help the client become aware of basic human issues of choice, commitment, and anxiety.
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The psychiatrist Milton Erikson most often used hypnosis in therapy to:
- help a client relax
- help a client recall unconscious material
- help the therapist take charge of the treatment - Correct Answer - C. Erikson used
hypnotherapy as a basis for client change. Hypnotic technique "required the therapist to assume full charge of the treatment and to issue directives...as a way of gaining leverage with patients, and, ultimately manipulating them to change".
From a humanistic perspective, psychopathology is viewed as a result of:
- blocked potential
- "dis-integration"
- misperceptions - Correct Answer - Humanists therapists share a belief inherent
capacity for humans to grow toward the achievement of their potential. Neurosis and psychosis are generally viewed as the result of interference with that potential.
Who was the founder of Gestalt Therapy? - Correct Answer - Fritz Perls
What is the concept of the "figure-ground"? - Correct Answer - Figure represents what a person is paying attention to and Ground represents what a person is not noticing
What are the components of personality as defined by Perls? - Correct Answer - The self promotes actualization, growth and awareness; the self image imposes external standards on the self and impairs self-actualization and growth.
What did Perl mean by the word "contact"? - Correct Answer - Interacting with nature and others without losing one's individuality.
What are boundary disturbances? - Correct Answer - Resistances to contact which are the defenses that one develops as a self-protective attempt the anxiety necessitated by change and prevents full experiencing in the present.
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pg. 3 According to Perls, name the six types of defenses that may result in a person who is more controlled by the self-image and less controlled by the self. - Correct Answer - Introjection, Projection, Retroflection, Deflection, Confluence, and Isolation
What is Introjection? - Correct Answer - Uncritically absorbing information without actually understanding or assimilating it.
What is projection? - Correct Answer - as in psychoanalytic theory, projection in gestalt therapy involves attributing one's own unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else
What is retroflection? - Correct Answer - a substitution of the self for the environment, in which a person does to him or herself what he or she wants to do to others.According to gestalt therapists, it is the chief mechanism underlying isolation Example - Tattoos and Piercings to be different
What is deflection? - Correct Answer - the avoidance of contact and/or awareness by being vague, indirect or overly polite
What is confluence? - Correct Answer - the result of a too thin or permeable boundary between self and the environment.
In confluence, a person does not experience self as distinct, rather, self is merged into beliefs, attitudes, and feelings of others.
What is isolation? - Correct Answer - the awareness of a boundary between self and environment becomes non existent, and all understanding of the importance of others for the self is lost.
When do boundary disturbances healthy? And when are they pathological? - Correct Answer - Boundary disturbances are all healthy under certain circumstances. The fully aware person alternates between connecting with and separating from the environment at appropriate times. 3 / 4
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What are the techniques Gestalt therapy relies on to build awareness? - Correct Answer
- Directed awareness, "I" statements, dream analysis, and the empty chair technique
What is Reality Therapy developed by Glaser based on? - Correct Answer - Choice Therapy
What are the five basic needs that reality therapy tries to balance? - Correct Answer - Survival Love and Belong Power Fun Freedom
Sullivan's concept of parataxic distortion is most similar to the Freudian notion of
- resistance
- catharsis
- displacement
- transference - Correct Answer - d. parataxic distortions occur when an individual
deals with others as if they were significant persons from his or her early life
From the perspective of ego-psychology, psychopathology results when the ego:
- becomes too autonomous
- loses its autonomy
- is damaged due to overwhelming life circumstances
- becomes swelled due to too much praise - Correct Answer - Anna Freud and Heinz
Hartmann, healthy behavior is under the ego's conscious control, and pathology may result when the ego loses this control and its autonomy from the id
Why are humanistic approaches referred to as the "third force" in clinical psychology? - Correct Answer - In contrast to psychodynamic and behaviorally orientated therapies,
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