Bob got declined for a date. How he thinks he'll be alone for his life, and he'll never be a happily married family man. To a cognitive therapist, this would be seen as ______
a. A cognitive distortion
b. An adaptive coping mechanism
c. An interpretation
d. A skills deficit
Answer: a.
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a. reliability b. bias c. potential d. deviation IQ
What did Spencer Cahill's research on "bathroom behavior" clearly show?
A) that people act very differently in bathrooms than in other areas of life B) that there are no real norms about behavior in bathrooms C) that people use bathrooms to demonstrate their "front stage" behavior D) that bathrooms are examples of "center stage" areas
According to Pennebaker, emotional disclosure is
a. generally a good thing for one's health b. generally a negative thing for one's health c. completely unrelated to health d. related to health only if disclosed emotion is exceptionally traumatic e. complicated and we really don't know anything about it
In terms of online dating services, when describing themselves, people are most likely to lie about
A. age. B. weight. C. financial status. D. height.