What is involved in cognitive coping skills training?

What will be an ideal response?


In cognitive coping skills training, the therapist teaches clients specific self-statements that they can make in a problem situation to improve their performance or influence their behavior in the situation.

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While talking with his best friend Johnny, Maurice, who is clearly down and out, says "Dude, I just have no luck with girls at all. I asked Gina out last night and she turned me down flat. Nobody will EVER want to go out with me

Why am I such a loser?" Because Johnny has recently taken an abnormal psychology class, he uses a cognitive perspective to answer Maurice. Which of the following might Johnny say? a) "You know, buddy, it sounds like you're really stuck in a battle between your id and superego!" b) "Hey, friend, I think that you've learned to see yourself negatively, so now you need to learn to see yourself positively!" c) "You know, dude, I think your neurotransmitters are all out of whack. Why don't you go to a doctor?" d) "Hey, pal, you are really overgeneralizing. Just because Gina said no doesn't mean that all girls will!"

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Ebbinghaus's original forgetting curves, which graphed his retention over time, suggested that most forgetting occurs

a. very gradually over long periods of time. b. only after several days have passed. c. as a result of interference with other information. d. very rapidly after learning something.

Psychology

If Wanda makes an educated, precisely worded guess about the behavior of her friends in a specific situation, she is making a:

A. theory B. hypothesis C. principle D. manipulation of variables

Psychology

fMRI is to ____ as MRI is to ____

a. structure; function c. organization; function b. function; structure d. x-ray; gamma ray

Psychology