What is meant by selective inattention?
a. A behavioral technique used by eclectic therapists who attempt to extinguish unwanted behaviors by ignoring them.
b. The sometimes problematic, sometimes positive behavior of deciding to forget painful experiences.
c. The problematic pattern of not profiting from experience by never noticing that it occurred.
d. The positive intervention of learning to spend time only with people who treat you well.
e. The positive intervention of learning to pay attention only to important events.
Answer: c
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
An intervention that can be used in conjunction with a counseling theory to determine a willingness to change is known as
a. scaling b. motivational interviewing c. goal congruence d. ambivalent goal setting
Behaviors, attitudes, feelings, and thoughts related to a client’s identities constitute aspects of
a. race. b. ethnicity. c. culture. d. intersectionality.
Proponents of positive psychology have pointed out the limited attention the literature pays to positivehuman characteristics. For example,since 1887,Psychological Abstracts articles have a negative to positive ratio of:
a. 2:1. b. 4:1. c. 8:1. d. 14:1.