Due to Unfortunate Circumstances, Sally Experienced Many Negative Events Growing

question 186

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Due to unfortunate circumstances, Sally experienced many negative events growing up and was unable to control or change most of them. Because of her past, Sally presently expects bad things to happen, and even though she is capable of making a difference, she assumes that there is nothing she can do to change her life for the better. This example best demonstrates the assumed cognitive mechanisms involved in:

• A) the depressive cognitive triad.
• B) the learned helplessness theory of depression.
• C) the depressive attributional pattern.
• D) Lewinsohn's learning theory of depression.

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