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EPPP CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY NEWEST 2024-2025
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE 270 QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS/ GRADED A+
What is signal anxiety? - Correct Answer - Impulse is seeking expression
What is the primary process? Who governs it? - Correct Answer - Unconscious mental processes characterized by a lack of logic, ease of substitution of one idea for another and by the immediate discharge of energy. It is governed by the id and the pleasure principle.
What is the secondary process and who governs it? - Correct Answer - Conscious mental process, governed by the conscious part of the ego, functions according to the reality principle and is logical and sequential
What is resistance in psychoanalytic therapy? - Correct Answer - when patients are unable to recall the traumatic memories that give rise to their symptoms
What is transference? - Correct Answer - Therapists neutrality allows the patient to project onto the therapist positive or negative feelings he or she originally had for another significant person from the past.
What is repetition compulsion? - Correct Answer - Apart of transference, one repeats feelings and affects from the past in the present. As a repetition of unresolved unconscious conflicts, patients may experience love, hate, or erotic feelings for their therapist.
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pg. 2 What is positive transference? - Correct Answer - displaced love longings or the feelings of affection, openness, and friendliness that allow for a working relationship between the patient and the therapist/therapy.
A Gestalt therapist would most likely ____ a client's question:
- analyzes
- ignores
- discourages
- mimic - Correct Answer - C. Discourage - Gestalt therapists view questions as
fostering intellectualization and masking true feelings. Thus, Gestalt therapists typically discourage their clients' questions.
For Carl Jung, projection of aspects of the collective unconscious onto the therapist
represents:
- a form of transference
- "symbolization" - Correct Answer - Jung believed that when transference occurs,
elements of the personal and collective (transpersonal) unconscious are projected onto the therapist
An intervention is set up for all preschool children in a community whose mothers have low IQs. The goal of the program is to counteract the potential negative effects of the mothers' subaverage intellectual functioning on the children's development. This is an
example of:
- primary prevention
- secondary prevention
- tertiary prevention - Correct Answer - C. The intervention is for all children of mothers
who have low IQs, not just for children who have been individually identified as having early signs of developmental problems. Consequently, this program is best described as primary prevention.
What did Fromm emphasize in personality development? - Correct Answer - The role of societal factors
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pg. 3 What were the five character styles that a person may adopt in response to the demands of society? Which one permits a person to realize his/her true human nature?
- Correct Answer - The receptive, the exploitative, the hoarding, the marketing, and the
productive.The productive character style realizes human nature.
Who are the Ego Analysts? - Correct Answer - Anna Freud, David Rappaport, and Heinz Hartmann
How did the Ego Analysts differ from Freud? - Correct Answer - Placed greater emphasis on the ego's role personality development than Freud. View healthy behavior under conscious control. More emphasis on current experiences and less on transference.
What is the ego-defensive function? - Correct Answer - Resolution of conflict
What is the ego-autonomous function? - Correct Answer - Adaptive non conflict laden functions such as learning, memory, speech, and perception
Who were the object relations theorists? - Correct Answer - Melanie Klein, Ronald Fairbairn, Margaret Mahler, Otto Kernberg, Heinz Kohut, and Donald Winnicott
What is an object introjecting? - Correct Answer - Mental representation of a person, either the self (self-representation) or another (object representation)
When and what is the "psychological birth" of a child? - Correct Answer - Occurs during the third year of life, in a healthy environment, the infant’s ego comes to develop mental representations of itself and others
How did Kohut describe narcissism? - Correct Answer - When a young child's natural self-love (narcissism) is undermined by a parent's inevitable failure to satisfy all the child's needs, the child develops a protective grandiose self
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pg. 4 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, which rely on a deterministic view of personality, existential/humanistic approaches stress individuality and the inherent capacity for growth and change.
What is the basis for Carl Roger's client centered (or person centered) therapy? - Correct Answer - It is based on the notion that we all have a self-actualizing tendency, or capacity for natural growth, constructive change, and self-understanding, that guides and motivates us.
What is the goal of client centered therapy? - Correct Answer - Decrease the incongruence between the real self and the ideal self and realize the capacity for self- actualization
What are the three facilitative conditions for client centered therapy? - Correct Answer -
- Accurate empathic understanding 2. Unconditional positive regard 3. Congruence /
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