Deck 9: Cognitive Counseling

Question 1

At the same time that Aaron Beck was developing cognitive therapy, what other cognitively based theory of counseling was being developed?

A) Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy
B) Schema Therapy
C) Solution-focused Therapy
D) Gestalt Therapy
E) Adlerian Therapy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Aaron Beck suffered from a phobia of

A) blood.
B) injury.
C) public speaking.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Answer 2

D

Question 3

According to the text authors, Beck developed cognitive therapy because

A) he wanted to prove the incorrectness of psychoanalysis.
B) he wanted to lead a cognitive revolution in psychotherapy.
C) his clinical research indicated it.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Cognitive therapy is founded upon

A) empiricism.
B) phenomenology.
C) reductionism.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 5

The conscious control system

A) is easily available when a primal mode is activated.
B) has the main purpose of de-energizing minor modes.
C) is brought into a client's awareness and strengthened during cognitive therapy.
D) none of the above
E) B and C only

Question 6

Beck and other researchers have found that the client most likely to attempt suicide is the one who feels

A) hopeless.
B) useless.
C) worthless.
D) helpless.
E) all of the above

Question 7

Cognitive therapists believe that all people are born with

A) the innate motives to survive and procreate.
B) specific schemas.
C) some capacity to process information.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 8

Aaron Beck

A) was raised in Europe.
B) used cognitive therapy concepts on his mother.
C) began as a skeptic of psychoanalysis.
D) A and B only
E) B and C only

Question 9

The authors of the text noted that Aaron Beck is the only psychiatrist to have won the highest research award(s) from which association(s)?

A) American Counseling Association
B) American Psychiatric Association
C) American Psychological Association
D) A and B only
E) B and C only

Question 10

A cognitive therapist believes a person's reality

A) is true reality because reality is subjective to each individual.
B) is close to what is actual reality.
C) is an individual construct that cannot be understood by another person.
D) A and C only
E) B and C only

Question 11

Schemas are

A) thoughts.
B) behaviors.
C) motives.
D) all of the above
E) A and B only

Question 12

The conscious control system

A) affects all systems when de-energizing a mode.
B) is easily accessible at all times.
C) most readily affects thoughts and actions.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 13

Protoschemas become schemas primarily because of

A) learning experiences.
B) the maturation process.
C) time.
D) energy.
E) all of the above

Question 14

In terms of nature and nurture, cognitive therapists

A) do not agree with research suggesting innate predisposition.
B) emphasize nurture more than nature.
C) believe an individual's schemas develop during adolescence due to rapid biological development.
D) believe nature has a significant, unchangeable influence on one's personality.
E) none of the above

Question 15

A student has just received a failing grade on a test. She goes to her counselor's office and rants, "My teacher hates me. She hates me. No matter what I do, she always finds a way to make my life miserable." In cognitive counseling terms, the student is exemplifying

A) an orienting mode energized to a minor mode.
B) a maladaptive intermediate thought.
C) modal rigidity.
D) modal flexibility.
E) use of the conscious control system.

Question 16

Tommy comes into the school counselor's office crying. He has just been at lunch. He starts telling the school counselor that as he sat down at a table, another boy got up and left. He says, "Everybody hates me." Tommy's thought process exemplifies the cognitive distortion of

A) dichotomous thinking.
B) personalization.
C) magnification.
D) minimization.
E) arbitrary inference.

Question 17

The text authors stated that distorted schemas tend to go

A) unidentified.
B) unexamined.
C) unchanged.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above

Question 18

In terms of responsibility for change in cognitive counseling,

A) if the client is mandated to counseling, the counselor takes on a more responsible role.
B) the client holds more responsibility than the counselor.
C) the counselor holds more responsibility than the client.
D) the client and counselor share equal responsibility.
E) if the client is cognitively impaired, the counselor takes on a more responsible role.

Question 19

Cognitive counselors are not averse to psychoactive medications under which of the following circumstances?

A) The client really wants medication.
B) The client is suicidal or homicidal.
C) The client's symptoms are too intense for the client to benefit from counseling.
D) all of the above
E) B and C only

Question 20

Cognitive theorists note that infants are endowed with certain abilities that assist them in processing information throughout life. Which of the following is not among these abilities?

A) emotion.
B) memory.
C) sensation.
D) reflexes.
E) All of the above are included among these abilities.

Question 21

During counseling, cognitive counselors

A) intervene simultaneously in all the systems of a mode.
B) intervene in the cognitive system before moving on to others.
C) intervene primarily in the cognitive and behavioral systems.
D) intervene in either the cognitive or the emotional system.
E) ask the client in what system he or she would like intervention to begin.

Question 22

Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis developed cognitively based theories during the same time period due to

A) attending Brown University together.
B) Ellis being a student of Beck.
C) both men being students of Adlerian therapy.
D) regular communication of their ideas with each other.
E) none of the above

Question 23

Cognitive therapists consider cognitions to be hierarchically organized. This concept involves the level of cognitions'

A) stability.
B) development.
C) availability to awareness.
D) all of the above
E) A and C only

Question 24

Clinician authors have addressed the application of cognitive therapy to diverse clients

A) not at all.
B) extensively.
C) inconsistently.
D) selectively.
E) moderately.

Question 25

The text authors cited research indicating that cognitive counseling might best be described as

A) the power of positive thinking.
B) the power of realistic thinking.
C) the power of useful thinking.
D) all of the above
E) none of the above