Roy is a competitive snowboarder with a dream of being on the Olympic team someday. After a series of poor finishes and falls during competitions, he tells his parents that he was never very good, he will never make the Olympic team, and snowboarding is a stupid sport anyway. Inside he begins to think that he will never be happy doing anything but snowboarding, and that he must be a huge failure
His parents worry that he is becoming depressed. This is a ____.?
a. ?biological explanation of depression
b. ?cognitive theory of depression
c. ?social explanation of depression
d. ?learning theory of depression
ANSWER:
b
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