Exam 10: Behavior Theory, the Cognitive Turn and the Influence of Mindfulness

______ is a therapeutic model in which negative or unhelpful thinking is challenged as a means of changing emotions and behavior patterns.

______ demonstrate the strongest level of empirical evidence for the effectiveness of behavioral approaches to social work.

______ represents a range of practices that involve both physical and psychological activities designed to determine what is happening in an individual's mind at any given moment in time.

The ______ generation of behavioral therapies addressed cognitive processing or thinking difficulties such as overgeneralizations and irrational thinking.

Which of the following is a second generation of behavior therapy?

In late 1950s, whose work precipitated behavior theory's turn toward the impact of cognitive processes on behavior?

Punishment is a key tool in ______.

Explain what mindfulness is using the example of washing dishes.

Behaviorism was a movement in psychology and philosophy first coined by ______.

Which of the following person is a cognitive theorist?

According to Hahn, how should mindfulness be practiced and cultivated?

Skinner thought that inner processes were irrelevant to the prediction, control and experimental analysis of human behavior.

______ involves individuals acquiring behaviors by observing other people which they then translate into social roles and behaviors.

The ______ generation of behavioral therapies encouraged clients through acceptance and mindfulness-based strategies to acknowledge suffering or psychological discomfort as inevitable, NOT as obstacles to reaching personal goals.

Behaviorism, in its pure form, rejected the impact of cognitive activity on human behavior.

Which of the following is an example of second generation of behavioral therapy?

______ is a Western philosophy which postulates that truth, in any situation, lies between the opposing tensions experienced in that situation.

______ is the structure or schema in which a person's mind intellectually develops and adapts to its environment and grows in its capacity for abstract thought and reasoning.

Which of the following is true about mindfulness?

What is Kabat-Zinn's understanding of mindfulness?