Roy Is a Competitive Snowboarder with a Dream of Being

question 45

Multiple Choice

Roy is a competitive snowboarder with a dream of being on the Olympic team someday. After a series of poor finishes and falls during competitions, he tells his parents that he was never very good, he will never make the Olympic team, and snowboarding is a stupid sport anyway. Inside he begins to think that he will never be happy doing anything but snowboarding, and that he must be a huge failure. His parents worry that he is becoming depressed. This is a ____. ​

• A)biological explanation of depression
• B)cognitive theory of depression
• C)social explanation of depression
• D)learning theory of depression

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