Cognitive Therapists Help People to Change Maladaptive Thinking Patterns by Doing

question 856

Multiple Choice

Cognitive therapists help people to change maladaptive thinking patterns by doing all of the following EXCEPT

• A) teaching people to recognize and keep track of their own thoughts.
• B) having people list all of their activities for a week, so they will see that they had both good and bad experiences.
• C) teaching people to alter their thoughts to improve mood and behaviors.
• D) discovering what past experiences led to the development of these maladaptive thought patterns.

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Definitions:

Posterior Probabilities

Probabilities that are updated based on new evidence or information, typically used in Bayesian statistics.

Prior Probabilities

Probabilities that reflect beliefs about the uncertainty of events before new evidence is considered.

Likelihood Probabilities

Measures of the plausibility of a hypothesis given certain data, not necessarily summed to one.

Posterior Probabilities

Probabilities that are updated as more evidence or information becomes available, commonly used in Bayesian statistics.