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A construct used to help clinicians conceptualize clinical problems and implement specific CBT
methods ✔Correct Answer-Basic CBT Model
Two central tenets of CBT ✔Correct Answer-1: our cognitions have a controlling influence on our
emotions and behavior
2. how we act or behave can strongly affect our thought patterns and emotions
First person to fully develop theories and methods for using cognitive and behavioral interventions
for emotional disorders. ✔Correct Answer-Aaron Beck
Symptoms are related to a negative thinking style in three domains: ✔Correct Answer-self, world,
future
What may impair the effectiveness of CBT ✔Correct Answer-Benzos
Highest level of cognition; a state of awareness in which decisions can be made on a rational basis
✔Correct Answer-Consciousness
1. Monitor and asses interactions with the environment
2. link past memories with present experiences
3. control and plan future actions ✔Correct Answer-Conscious attention
Automatic thoughts occur in which part of thinking? ✔Correct Answer-Preconscious because they
can be recognized and understood if our attention is drawn to them
Event, Cognitive Appraisal, Emotion, Behavior ✔Correct Answer-Elements of Basic CBT Model
Cognitions that stream rapidly through our minds when we are in the midst of situations (or are
recalling events) ✔Correct Answer-Automatic Thoughts
Core beliefs that act as templates or underlying rules for information processing; they serve as
critical function in allowing humans to screen, filter, code, and assign meaning to information form
the environment ✔Correct Answer-Schemas
The presence of strong emotions might indicate what? ✔Correct Answer-Automatic thoughts
might be occurring
Elements of A Three-Column Thought Record ✔Correct Answer-Event, Automatic Thoughts,
Emotions
Characteristics errors in logic in the automatic thoughts and other cognitions of persons with
emotional disorders. ✔Correct Answer-Cognitive Errors
, A conclusion is drawn after looking at only a small portion of the available information. Salient data
are screened out or ignored in order to confirm the person's biased view of the situation.
✔Correct Answer-Selective Abstraction or "ignoring the evidence" or "the mental filter"
A depressed man with low self-esteem does not receive a holiday card from an old friend. He thinks
"I am losing all my friends; nobody cares about me anymore" He ignored the evidence that he has
received cards from other friends, his old friend has sent him a card every year for the past 15 years,
his friend is busy with a new job, and he has other friends. ✔Correct Answer-Selective Abstraction
A conclusion is reached in the face of contradictory evidence or in the absence of evidence.
✔Correct Answer-Arbitrary Inference
A woman with a fear of elevators is asked to predict the chances that an elevator will fall if she rides
in it. She replies that the chances are 10% or more that the elevator will fall to the ground and that
she will be injured. Many people have tried to convince her that the chances of a catastrophic
elevator accident are negligible. ✔Correct Answer-Arbitrary Inference
A conclusion is made about one or more isolated incidents and then is extended illogically to cover
broad areas of functioning. ✔Correct Answer-Overgeneralization
A depressed college student gets a B on a test. He considers this unsatisfactory. He is thinking "I am
falling short everywhere in my life, I cannot do anything right" ✔Correct Answer-
Overgeneralization
The significance of an attribute event, or sensation is exaggerated or minimized. ✔Correct Answer-
Magnification and Minimization
A women with panic disorder starts to feel lightheaded during the onset of a panic attack. She thinks
"I will faint; I might have a heart attack or stroke" ✔Correct Answer-Magnification
External events are related to oneself when there is little or no basis for doing so. Excessive
responsibility or blame is taken for negative events. ✔Correct Answer-Personalization
"It is my fault, I should have seen this coming and done something to stop it" ✔Correct Answer-
Personalization
Judgements about oneself, personal experiences, or others are placed into one of two categories (all
good or all bad; total failure or total success) ✔Correct Answer-Absolutistic Thinking
"Debbie has everything going for her, I have nothing" ;) ✔Correct Answer-Absolutistic Thinking
Selective abstraction, overgeneralization, personalization... ✔Correct Answer-Cognitive Errors or
Cognitive Distortions
Rules about the physical nature of the environment, practice management of everyday activities, or
laws of nature that may have little or no effect on psychopathology. ✔Correct Answer-Simple
Schemas
Conditional rules such as if-then statements that influence self-esteem, emotional regulation, and
behavior ✔Correct Answer-Intermediary beliefs and assumptions