Exam 10: Cognitive and Behavioral Approaches

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.

What is global meaning?

Discuss Park's study in which she concluded that religion was related to meaning-making coping.

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.

One of the first theoretical groupings of coping strategies, suggested by Folkman and Lazarus (1980), splits coping strategies into the two broad-based categories. ____ coping involves dealing with the perceived cause of the distress whereas ____ coping entails managing the distress caused by the problem.

The ____ process of adding new information (i.e., the situational meaning)to an already existing schema or cognitive framework (i.e., one's global meaning)is more common than the ____ process of changing the larger organizing schema (i.e., one's global meaning)to fit the smaller one (i.e., the situational meaning).

Define cognitive restructuring.

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

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

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

Give an example of a behavior in which self-blame can lead to positive health behaviors.

When is self-forgiveness is more likely to occur?

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

____ is a category of coping that uses our values, beliefs, and goals to shape meaning in stressful situations that are generally not conducive to the use of problem-focused coping such as long-term caregiving for a loved one with dementia or loss of a loved one.

____ coping is a form of emotion-focused coping that may involve using cognitive or behavioral strategies.

Describe the distorted thinking category of emotional reasoning used in Beck's triple column method exercise. Provide examples.

Describe the distorted thinking category of blame used in Beck's triple column method exercise. Provide examples.

Another way to conceptualize the different specific coping strategies is to think of them as intersecting along two dimensions: problem-focused versus emotion-focused and approach versus avoidance coping. Discuss.

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

____ is a specific type of coping strategy in which one deliberately waits until the time is right to act.