According to Alfred Adler, Developing Mental Health or Mental Illness

question 18

Multiple Choice

According to Alfred Adler, developing mental health or mental illness depends on

• A) the contents of your collective unconscious.
• B) the ratio of pleasure to displeasure in your early childhood.
• C) the ratio of dopamine to serotonin in your prefrontal cortex.
• D) the goals you seek in your life.

Understand the significance and application of cognitive therapy techniques.

Differentiate between systematic desensitization, aversive conditioning, and applied behavior analysis.

Describe how cognitive restructuring aims to change maladaptive thoughts to alleviate psychological issues.

Identify how humanistic therapies differ from psychodynamic therapies in focus and methodology.

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Definitions:

Mode

Mode refers to the most frequently occurring value in a set of data.

Regression Toward the Mean

A statistical phenomenon wherein extreme scores on one occasion tend to be closer to the average on subsequent testing.

Illusory Correlation

A cognitive bias where people falsely perceive an association between two unrelated events or variables.

Random Assignment

A procedure in experimental designs that ensures each participant has an equal chance of being placed into any group, reducing biases.