The notion that aggression can be reduced by allowing angry individuals to engage harmless activities that allow them to “blow off self esteem” is:
A. Frustration-aggression hypothesis
B. Displacement hypothesis
C. Sublimation hypothesis
D. Catharsis hypothesis
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Research on the role of reinforcement in insight therapy has found that:

A. It does not play a role
B. It does play a role
C. It has an effect only on dependent patients
D. It plays a role in highly structured therapy situation

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How can morality covertly enter the therapy session?

A. By having ministers take over the role of therapist
B. By the use of techniques to alter a sexual preference
C. By allowing an insane person into therapy
D. By allowing philosophers of ethics to become therapists

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“Human beings respond to their subjective cognitions about their world rather than to the objective environment” is an argument for the effectiveness of:

A. Primal therapy
B. Freudian therapy
C. Cognitive therapy
D. Rankian therapy

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Rotter’s social learning theory emphasizes the following:

A. Behavioral potential
B. Expectancy
C. A reinterpretation of Freud’s theory
D. Both A and B

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The basic assumption of humanistic theories include:

A. Humans are basically good and worthy
B. Humans are basically bad and unworthy and thus have to be reconditioned using learning principles
C. There is a natural growth process that can be blocked by bad condition
D. Both A and C

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“Delusion” refer to:

A. Thoughts or beliefs that have no basis in reality
B. Feelings that have no basis in reality
C. Behaviors that have no basis in reality
D. None of these

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