CBT 2 Exam Questions And Answers
2023
In the book, an example of community training center and the token economy → what
was the purpose of the token economy - correct answer-Purpose for implementing was
to prepare patients for independent living outside psychiatric hospital
Token economy was to motivate the trainees to develop independent living skills that
they learned from a Community Training Center → give motivation to leave behind
dependent living habits and learn independent living ones
What are token economies? - correct answer-System for motivating clients in which
they can earn token reinforcers for adaptive behaviors and lose tokens for maladaptive
behaviors; the tokens are exchanged for backup reinforcers
At achievement place, what was the merit system? - correct answer-Prototype for the
Teaching Family Model
Different levels of the token economy implemented
Daily system → points that boys earned were exchangeable each day for backup
reinforcers
Weekly system → points the boys earned were exchanged for backup reinforcers once
a week (e.g. purchase tv time for an entire week)
Merit system → for boys who were ready to leave the Achievement Place. They would
not lose or earn points and would not pay for backup reinforcers so long as they
continued to demonstrate a high level of appropriate behavior → boys were praised for
appropriate behaviors and prepared them for when they were returning home with no
point system
Which of the following is not a component of behavioral child management training -
correct answer-Behavioral parent training- treatment package taught to parents
consisting of acceleration and deceleration behavior therapy procedures to effectively
manage their child's behavior therapy problems
Goals for parents:
(1) clear, direct, and age-appropriate instructions to their children;
(2) consistent reinforcement for prosocial, desirable child behaviors
(3) consistent and appropriate punishment for children's noncompliant and disruptive
behaviors.
Major therapies taught:
positive reinforcement,
differential reinforcement
time out from positive reinforcement.
In systematic desensitization, counter-conditioning explanation is based on what? -
correct answer-Classical conditioning (pairing anxiety to relaxation)
, How is in vivo desensitization similar to systematic desensitization? - correct answer--In
vivo desensitization essentially is systematic desensitization except that the client is
exposed to the actual feared event rather than imagining it
-In vivo desensitization - exposed to actual fear
Systematic desensitization - imagine fear
In systematic desensitization, when using imagination, what is the process? - correct
answer--The client learns a response that competes with anxiety/Creating opposing
conditions
-The specific events that cause anxiety are ordered in terms of the level of the anxiety
they engender
-The client repeatedly visualizes the anxiety-provoking events, in order of increasing
anxiety, while performing the competing response
Who was the physiologist who initially pioneered the use of relaxation training? Who is
the father of relaxation training? - correct answer-Edmund Jacobsen
What is characteristic of the anxiety in implosive therapy that works (Check this
question) - correct answer--The use of hypothesized anxiety-producing cues (based on
psychoanalytic interpretations)
-The exaggeration of scenes to heighten anxiety
-The elaboration of scenes as they are presented
-These scenes are embellished or exaggerated in order to increase the client's anxiety
and are made more intense as the therapy goes on in order to reduce the anxiety.
What is the critical component of flooding? - correct answer-Prolonged/intense
exposure to what causes the client anxiety for a prolonged period (sometimes more
than an hour)
Client will experience a significant amount of anxiety but the feared negative
consequence does not actually occur
In flooding, when a client is not allowed to engage in anxiety driven behavior, the
procedure is called what? - correct answer-Exposure with Response Prevention or
Response Prevention
If someone has PTSD, what is a type of exposure therapy you would not want to use? -
correct answer-In vivo exposure therapy
What is self-modeling? - correct answer-Therapy procedure in which clients serve as
their own models, by observing themselves on videotape or in their imaginations
performing an acceleration target behavior
What procedures are used to teach children self-protection against abduction? - correct
answer-Skills training
Children were taught an appropriate response to the 3 most common luring techniques
of abductors through modeling, behavior rehearsal, feedback, and social reinforcement
2023
In the book, an example of community training center and the token economy → what
was the purpose of the token economy - correct answer-Purpose for implementing was
to prepare patients for independent living outside psychiatric hospital
Token economy was to motivate the trainees to develop independent living skills that
they learned from a Community Training Center → give motivation to leave behind
dependent living habits and learn independent living ones
What are token economies? - correct answer-System for motivating clients in which
they can earn token reinforcers for adaptive behaviors and lose tokens for maladaptive
behaviors; the tokens are exchanged for backup reinforcers
At achievement place, what was the merit system? - correct answer-Prototype for the
Teaching Family Model
Different levels of the token economy implemented
Daily system → points that boys earned were exchangeable each day for backup
reinforcers
Weekly system → points the boys earned were exchanged for backup reinforcers once
a week (e.g. purchase tv time for an entire week)
Merit system → for boys who were ready to leave the Achievement Place. They would
not lose or earn points and would not pay for backup reinforcers so long as they
continued to demonstrate a high level of appropriate behavior → boys were praised for
appropriate behaviors and prepared them for when they were returning home with no
point system
Which of the following is not a component of behavioral child management training -
correct answer-Behavioral parent training- treatment package taught to parents
consisting of acceleration and deceleration behavior therapy procedures to effectively
manage their child's behavior therapy problems
Goals for parents:
(1) clear, direct, and age-appropriate instructions to their children;
(2) consistent reinforcement for prosocial, desirable child behaviors
(3) consistent and appropriate punishment for children's noncompliant and disruptive
behaviors.
Major therapies taught:
positive reinforcement,
differential reinforcement
time out from positive reinforcement.
In systematic desensitization, counter-conditioning explanation is based on what? -
correct answer-Classical conditioning (pairing anxiety to relaxation)
, How is in vivo desensitization similar to systematic desensitization? - correct answer--In
vivo desensitization essentially is systematic desensitization except that the client is
exposed to the actual feared event rather than imagining it
-In vivo desensitization - exposed to actual fear
Systematic desensitization - imagine fear
In systematic desensitization, when using imagination, what is the process? - correct
answer--The client learns a response that competes with anxiety/Creating opposing
conditions
-The specific events that cause anxiety are ordered in terms of the level of the anxiety
they engender
-The client repeatedly visualizes the anxiety-provoking events, in order of increasing
anxiety, while performing the competing response
Who was the physiologist who initially pioneered the use of relaxation training? Who is
the father of relaxation training? - correct answer-Edmund Jacobsen
What is characteristic of the anxiety in implosive therapy that works (Check this
question) - correct answer--The use of hypothesized anxiety-producing cues (based on
psychoanalytic interpretations)
-The exaggeration of scenes to heighten anxiety
-The elaboration of scenes as they are presented
-These scenes are embellished or exaggerated in order to increase the client's anxiety
and are made more intense as the therapy goes on in order to reduce the anxiety.
What is the critical component of flooding? - correct answer-Prolonged/intense
exposure to what causes the client anxiety for a prolonged period (sometimes more
than an hour)
Client will experience a significant amount of anxiety but the feared negative
consequence does not actually occur
In flooding, when a client is not allowed to engage in anxiety driven behavior, the
procedure is called what? - correct answer-Exposure with Response Prevention or
Response Prevention
If someone has PTSD, what is a type of exposure therapy you would not want to use? -
correct answer-In vivo exposure therapy
What is self-modeling? - correct answer-Therapy procedure in which clients serve as
their own models, by observing themselves on videotape or in their imaginations
performing an acceleration target behavior
What procedures are used to teach children self-protection against abduction? - correct
answer-Skills training
Children were taught an appropriate response to the 3 most common luring techniques
of abductors through modeling, behavior rehearsal, feedback, and social reinforcement
