What are the three types of automatic thoughts that contribute to depression, based on the cognitive approach to treatment?

What will be an ideal response?


Aaron Beck proposed that negative or biased thoughts that come automatically to mind contributed to the onset and maintenance of depression. Automatic thoughts take three forms: negative views about the self, negative views about the world, and negative views about the future.

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Many artists and intellectuals pursue creative and intellectual goals without recognition or reward. The fact that they pursue growth motives in the absence of safety and security argues against Maslow's idea that needs are organized as

a. psychic energy. c. a hierarchy. b. drives. d. stimulus motives.

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Which of the following examples best illustrates how functional distance plays a role in the propinquity effect?

a. Bart doesn't like his next-door neighbor, primarily because of his habit of playing loud music that makes it difficult to get to sleep at night. b. Marge, whose cubicle is right next to both the kitchen and the elevator, is one of the most popular people in the entire office. c. Homer prefers to take the stairs rather than the elevator because it decreases his likelihood of running into people he finds annoying. d. Lisa made more friends in her sophomore-year dorm than in her freshman-year dorm.

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Research into the type C personality have clearly indicated that this type of personality plays a large role in cancer etiology, and can be used as a tool to predict the risk of cancer.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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If Jamal is experiencing a partial erection, he is likely in which sleep stage?

A. Stage 1 B. Stage 2 C. Stage 3 D. REM

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