Deck 9: Cognitive Counseling

Question 1

Cognitive therapy is founded upon

A) reductionism.
B) all of the above
C) A and B only
D) empiricism.
E) phenomenology.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Cognitive therapists have developed treatment manuals

A) to keep therapists from other approaches from using cognitive techniques.
B) to ensure that other therapists enact cognitive treatment effectively.
C) to help other cognitive therapists avoid individualizing treatment.
D) to promote research in cognitive therapy.
E) to satisfy managed care.

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Cognitive therapy techniques include

A) free association.
B) dreamwork.
C) any technique from another therapeutic approach that facilitates a client reformulating distorted cognitions.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Answer 3

E

Question 4

Managed care organizations

A) love cognitive therapy.
B) hate cognitive therapy.
C) are unsure of the benefits of cogntive therapy.
D) prefer the counselors combine cognitve and existential forms of therapy.
E) rank cognitive therapy as the 9th most effective treatment of all disorders.

Question 5

A counselor asks, "So if you were going to divide 100 points between the two sides, what you gain and what you lose, what does the proportion feel like to you?" This is an example of

A) scaling
B) the double-standard technique
C) cost/benefit analysis
D) modal inference
E) automatic thought definition

Question 6

Along with being warm, empathic, and genuine, a cognitive counselor needs to be

A) intuitive in order to see the "real" underlying problems going on in a client's life.
B) knowledgeable about cognitive theory.
C) able to confront clients and dispute their cognitive distortions.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 7

In cognitive counseling, the personality change process

A) involves all systems in a mode.
B) is focused primarily on the behavioral system.
C) is consistently led by the counselor.
D) is focused on generating both social and cognitive interest
E) none of the above

Question 8

Beck's cognitive triad that occurs in depression is an exaggerated and persistently negative view of

A) self, others, and the world.
B) one's work, one's life, and one's relationships.
C) the past, the present, and the future.
D) oneself, the world, and the future.
E) one's history, one's environment, and one's current situation.

Question 9

People develop schemas

A) through learning experiences.
B) only as adults.
C) often on the basis of imprecise perceptions.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 10

A graduate student takes his first test in a class and fails. The student looks at the failing grade, crumples up the exam, and states, "I'll never understand this stuff." This statement is an example of

A) a schema.
B) an automatic thought.
C) an intermediate thought.
D) a positively charged emotion.
E) negative information processing.

Question 11

The text authors made the analogy that schemas are like

A) binolculars.
B) a submarine.
C) tinted glasses.
D) a microscope.
E) a hologram.

Question 12

Primal modes differ from minor modes because

A) primal modes utilize more energy than minor modes.
B) minor modes are the same as the orienting mode
C) primal modes can stem only from minor modes, not from the orienting mode.
D) Primal modes control the neocortex, while minor modes control nothing
E) none of the above

Question 13

From a cognitive perspective, an individual's personality is made up of

A) cognitions and information processing.
B) schemas, systems, and modes.
C) the central nervous system, the peripheral nervous system, and cognitions.
D) A and B only
E) none of the above

Question 14

Cognitive therapists

A) believe an infant's mind is a blank slate.
B) believe individuals are born with certain temperaments.
C) believe individuals are victims of their innate predispositions.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 15

Cognitive counselors act as

A) teachers
B) guides
C) nurturers
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 16

Schemas are

A) deeply embedded in the unconscious.
B) flexible and easily reformulated.
C) the most available type of cognition.
D) dysfunctional cognitions.
E) none of the above

Question 17

The conscious control system

A) is brought into a client's awareness and strengthened during cognitive therapy.
B) is easily available when a primal mode is activated.
C) has the main purpose of de-energizing minor modes.
D) none of the above
E) B and C only

Question 18

Aaron Beck asserted that each of the various mental disorders was characterized by a particular

A) cognitive formulation.
B) cognitive dysfunction.
C) cognitive pattern.
D) cognitive process.
E) cognitive distortion.

Question 19

Distorted cognitions differ from adaptive cognitions because

A) adaptive cognitions do not cause distress.
B) adaptive cognitions are not part of a feedback loop.
C) distorted cognitions perpetuate self-defeating feelings.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only