The humanistic and existential approaches have been most successful at ____.
a. explaining the relationship between inheritance and stress
b. creating a coherent theory of behavior
c. describing the human condition
d. developing a scientific body of evidence for its concepts
Question 2Tuyet-Hoa says, I tend to focus on the individual and how that person can reach his or her full potential. I am optimistic that people can fulfill themselves when they are free of society's burdening expectations. Tuyet-Hoa's ideas sound most like ____.
a. Ellis's A-B-C theory of personality
b. Thorndike's law of effect
c. humanistic thinking
d. existential thinking
Question 3Dr. Castillo says, I look at psychopathology in terms of human suffering and the alienation that individuals now feel in an increasingly impersonal world. We are responsible for our actions, and responsible to others as well. Dr. Castillo's remarks best illustrate which approach?
a. humanistic
b. cognitive
c. post-Freudian
d. existential
Question 4The existential and humanistic approaches differ from one another in that the existentialists emphasize ____.
a. the need for society to control and restrict the antisocial impulses of individuals
b. responsibility to society as well as personal responsibility
c. the importance of the therapist's interpretation of the client's difficulties in life
d. optimism
Question 5Which perspective is not really a systemized school of thought, and instead is more like a set of attitudes that emphasizes the individual's quest for meaning and personal responsibility for choices?
a. existential
b. cognitive
c. psychodynamic
d. behavioral
Question 6Humanistic therapists ____.
a. emphasize the use of specific techniques in therapy
b. withhold unconditional positive regard when clients are unwilling to accept personal responsibility
c. do not need training to develop clinical skills because it is their attitude that is paramount for effecting therapeutic change
d. believe that people are able to advance and grow on their own
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