MCQ Bank
Which of the followings is a form of psychotherapy in which a small, carefully selected group of individuals meets regularly with a therapist?
- A) Play therapy
- B) None of the given options
- C) Group therapy
- D) Couple therapy
All of the followings can be considered curative factors which are the primary agents of change in group therapy EXCEPT:
- A) Improved social learning skills
- B) Altruism
- C) Synchronicity
- D) Universality
Who demonstrated that the behavior of hospitalized psychotic patients could be modified by operant procedures?
- A) Lazarus and Eysenck
- B) Mary Cover Jones
- C) Miller and Gross
- D) Lindsley and Skinner
Which of the following phase of psychotherapy reveals that client practices coping skills in the clinic and then gradually goes out in the real world as she is confronted with the stressors?
- A) Conceptualization
- B) Skill acquisition and rehearsal
- C) Generalization
- D) Application
Who among the followings is not a significant figure of behaviorism?
- A) Rayner
- B) Freud
- C) Watson
- D) Pavlov
Which technique asks a client to close eyes and imagine a scene of the past or future event?
- A) Awareness of self and others
- B) Enactment and dramatization
- C) Guided fantasy
- D) Dream work
A principle in which we consider thoughts, feelings, behavior, body sensations and dreams as a whole is known as:
- A) Holism
- B) Alcoholism
- C) Aholism
- D) Wholeism
Systematic desensitization is based upon which of the following that states one cannot be relaxed and anxious simultaneously?
- A) Reciprocal inhibition
- B) Counter conditioning
- C) Anxiety hierarchy
- D) Interoceptive cues
All of the followings are the goals of person centered therapy EXCEPT:
- A) Reflection
- B) Transference
- C) Empathy
- D) Congruence
All of the following cognitive therapy techniques can be employed by a clinician for treating depression EXCEPT:
- A) Cognitive rehearsal
- B) Group therapy
- C) Role playing
- D) Assertiveness training
How many levels of inferences or interpretations were described by Tyler and Taplin?
- A) Three
- B) One
- C) Two
- D) Four
____________ is an ongoing process that does not cease in initial clinical sessions.
- A) Psychotherapy
- B) Diagnosis
- C) Professionalism
- D) Assessment
A complex process that must vary with each client is known as:
- A) Logo therapy
- B) Gestalt therapy
- C) Psychotherapy
- D) Person-centered therapy
Data obtained from patients can be viewed in many different ways such as:
- A) Discrimination, Generalization and Stimulation
- B) Personalization, Relation and Discrimination
- C) Situation, Sample and Diagnosis
- D) Samples, Signs and Correlates
Which of the following refers to over interpretation of clinicians?
- A) The over interpretation syndrome
- B) The reading-out syndrome
- C) The reading-in syndrome
- D) The exaggeration syndrome
All of the followings are correct about psychotherapy EXCEPT:
- A) Treatment methods are guided by theories
- B) It is conducted by a licensed therapist
- C) It is advice giving or helping in an informal context
- D) It works in the trustworthy working environment
If a clinician is using psychological techniques to reduce blood pressure, lower resting heart rate or decrease headache, it is being employed to target:
- A) Behavior
- B) Biological Process
- C) Emotions
- D) Thinking
In early years of psychoanalysis, hysteria was viewed as a "female" disorder, most often marked by all of the following EXCEPT:
- A) Muteness
- B) Deafness
- C) Paralysis
- D) Blindness
Which one of the following DOES NOT fall in the category of interpersonal-intrapersonal levels?
- A) Formulation of personality
- B) Impressions about cognitive and affective functioning
- C) Coping strategies
- D) Primary conflicts
Who among the following gave the recommendations to help clinicians to overcome biasness in clinical judgment?
- A) Grab
- B) Sawyer
- C) Goldberg
- D) Devis