One Potential Problem with Insight-Oriented Therapies, Such as Psychoanalysis and Client-Centered

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Multiple Choice

One potential problem with insight-oriented therapies, such as psychoanalysis and client-centered therapy, is that:

• A) gaining an understanding of the cause of maladaptive behaviors does not necessarily result in more adaptive and healthier behaviors.
• B) patients must be in therapy for years before any changes occur.
• C) most patients stop attending the therapy sessions before any progress has been made.
• D) these therapies rely too heavily on learning principles to produce changes in emotional and behavioral functioning.

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Definitions:

Conditional Response

An acquired reflex to a stimulus initially neutral, after its frequent association with a stimulus that naturally invokes a response.

Rescorla

An influential figure in psychology known for his work on associative learning and conditioning, particularly the Rescorla-Wagner model of classical conditioning.

Stimulus Discrimination

The ability to differentiate between various stimuli, responding differently based on their distinct characteristics.

Classical Conditioning

The process in which learning is achieved by regularly pairing two stimuli until a response once caused by the second stimulus becomes caused by the first stimulus.