Helen is a researcher interested in topics such as cancer and heart disease. She wants her psychological research to address why some people get sick, how some people stay healthy, and what they do when they get sick in order to try to recover. Helen is likely a __________ .

Sylvia is overweight. She often consumes large amounts of food in a short period of time, usually by herself and even when she is not hungry. Which eating disorder would apply to Sylvia’s circumstances?

Chiquita has a great deal of difficulty controlling her impulses. She lashes out at other children on the playground and spreads rumors about the teachers and fellow students. Each time Chiquita exhibits an undesirable behavior (such as taunting another child) she is immediately removed from the situation for a time-out period. Which behavior therapy technique is being applied in this situation?

According to Freud’s psychodynamic theory, the structure of personality that operates on the pleasure principle is the __________ .

Horatio has engaged the services of a psychoanalytic therapist who is helping Horatio to uncover the hidden conflicts that have affected his current mental health. The therapist asks Horatio to narrate whatever comes into his conscious awareness, uncensored and unedited, as he lies quietly on a couch. Which analytic technique is the therapist using?

Compared to traditional Freudian psychoanalysis, modern psychoanalytic and psychodynamic approaches to therapy focus more on __________ than on __________ as the motivating force behind a person’s actions.

Willis was awakened from a sound sleep by a piercing scream coming from outside his bedroom window. Instantaneously his heart beat faster, his eyes widened, and his breathing quickened. These events characterize the __________ stage of the general adaptation syndrome.

Repetitive and ritualistic behaviors enacted to reduce feelings of anxiety are called __________ .

Willis attends a weekly session designed to help people with social anxiety disorder. During the session a therapist guides discussion and solicits narratives from all the people present. What kind of therapy is Willis pursuing?

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