Recitation Sections Learning Objectives

Recitation Section #11 (Therapy and Learning) – April 26-27th

Homework #10 (homework questions are highlighted)
1. What are the methods used by the therapist in psychoanalysis?

2. How does interpersonal therapy differ from traditional psychoanalysis?

3. How do the goals of a behavior therapist differ from those of a traditional

psychoanalyst?

4. What is active listening? How is it incorporated into client-centered therapy?

5. What are the cognitive therapies? How do they differ from the cognitive-behavior
therapies? How does stress inoculation training work?

6. What is the rationale and benefits of family therapy?

7. Are psychotherapies generally effective? Which therapies are most effective for
which disorders?

8. How do cultural differences affect the therapeutic process?

9. What is “regression toward the mean?” How might it explain why therapies may
seem more effective than they actually are?

10. Describe how electroconvulsive therapy is used in treating severe depression.

Describe a recent alternative treatment to ECT now under investigation.

11. What are antipsychotic drugs? What are the differences in what the first-
generation and second-generation antipsychotics target? What is tardive
dyskinesia?

12. How do modern antidepressant drugs work (e.g., Zoloft, Paxil, and Prozac)?

13. How do researchers evaluate the effectiveness of particular drug therapies? What
is psychopharmacology?

14. Describe Pavlov’s classic experiment.

15. In slasher movies, sexually arousing images of women are sometimes paired with
violence against women. On the basis of classical conditioning principles, what
might be an effect of this pairing?
16. What is the difference between an unconditioned response and a conditioned
response? Give an example.

17. To be able to punish his cat even when he’s not near enough to reach him, Elmer
squirts the animal with water while whispering the phrase “pooper scooper”. Now
the sound of “pooper scooper” causes the cat to startle. What are the UCS, UCR,
CS, and CR?

18. What is generalization? Shown an angry face on a computer screen, abused

children’s brain-wave responses are dramatically stronger and longer lasting than
those of non-abused children. Why is this an example of generalization?

19. How is classical conditioning used in therapeutic techniques such as systematic

desensitization to relieve anxiety?

20. Summarize Pavlov’s contribution to our understanding of learning.