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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Definitions:

Placebo Treatments

Inactive substances or procedures given to a participant in place of an actual treatment, used in research to test the effectiveness of therapies.

Conditioned Stimulus

In classical conditioning, a previously neutral stimulus that, after being associated with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to elicit a conditioned response.

Snake Phobia

An intense, irrational fear of snakes, which can cause emotional and physical reactions even in the absence of real danger.

Classical Conditioning

The act of learning through establishing a relationship between a stimulus that is environmentally based and another that occurs spontaneously in nature.