If You Seek Counseling from a Cognitive Behavior Therapist, You

question 179

Multiple Choice

If you seek counseling from a cognitive behavior therapist, you would expect him or her to

• A)provide aversive conditioning to produce bad habits.
• B)provide a non-threatening setting for the expression of unconscious thoughts.
• C)help you to change inappropriate patterns of thought.
• D)overcome fixations that occurred at earlier stages of development.

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Definitions:

Automatically Processed

Information processing that occurs subconsciously and without the need for conscious attention or control.

Working Memory

A mental system with restricted capability tasked with holding information briefly for the purposes of processing and altering it.

Iconic Memory

A type of visual sensory memory that holds a brief photographic image of a scene that has just been perceived, lasting for a very short period of time.

Automatically Processed

Information or tasks that are performed with little or no conscious effort, often due to repetition or familiarity.