Exam 10: Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches

Describe the process of self-forgiveness.

In order to restore shaken or lost meaning, changes need to be made to either the situational meaning or the global meaning or both to bring them into alignment with each other.Discuss the process of meaning making.

Recent research indicates that human ____ hormone may play a role in the bonding process for women with their pet dogs, but not for men and their dogs.

Some researchers use narrative approaches in which participants identify a stressor and then give an account of how they coped with the stressor.Discuss the advantage(s) and disadvantage(s) of this approach.

____ cover broad areas "such as fairness, justice, luck, control, predictability, coherence, benevolence, and personal vulnerability" and global goals "ideals, states, or objects that people work toward being or achieving or maintaining, such as relationships, work, wealth, knowledge, and achievement."

In general, how effective is avoidance coping for dealing with minor or transient irritations? For serious or chronic problems?

Although there is substantial support for the goodness of fit hypothesis in coping, Folkman and Moskowitz (2004) conclude after examining the relevant studies that the empirical evidence for its validity is not always consistent.What is the evidence for the inconsistency of this hypothesis?

Elaborate on how the attributional retraining (AR) approach has been used to improve academic achievement.

Planning that uses mentally oriented problem-focused coping is a form of ____ coping.

____ are cognitions that address the "Why?" question.For example, we may ask ourselves "why did the bad event happen?"

Discuss Meichenbaum's stress inoculation training (SIT).What concept is it based on? What combination of cognitive and behavioral skill-building approaches does it use? Elaborate on its three phases.

Researchers studying religious-based coping note that it is important to distinguish this specific subset of religiosity from general religiosity.Why?

Provide two definitions of coping.

What techniques do REBT therapists use to assist the client in challenging irrational beliefs?

____ is a distorted thinking category in which one takes a specific example and sees it as global."It never ends.I got bad news today, but then again, my life is nothing but bad news."

What are the two conclusions we can generally draw from research assessing the physiological benefits of human-animal interaction?

____ is a specific type of coping strategy in which one intentionally sets aside other projects to focus on the problem.

____ is a specific type of coping strategy in which one thinks about and decides on future actions for dealing with the problem.

____ is a distorted thinking category in which one makes absolutistic statements.

Examples of irrational beliefs that would need to be disputed include a high need for perfection or approval.List the two main characteristics of such beliefs.