Cognitive Therapies Are Most Likely to Focus on the Extent

question 91

Multiple Choice

Cognitive therapies are most likely to focus on the extent to which emotional disturbances result from

• A) self-blaming and overgeneralized explanations of bad events.
• B) chemical abnormalities within the brain.
• C) overly permissive child-raising practices.
• D) poverty,unemployment,racism,and sexism.

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Definitions:

Social Validity

The degree to which the goals, procedures, and outcomes of an intervention are acceptable and relevant to the participants and their community.

Non-disturbed Samples

Samples collected from natural or unchanged settings or populations, maintaining their original conditions without human-induced alteration or manipulation.

Face Validity

The extent to which a test appears to measure what it's supposed to measure, based on subjective judgment.

Content Validity

When the content of a test includes a representative sample of behaviours thought to be related to the construct (that is, the concept or entity) the test is designed to measure.