- (C) Cognitive therapy is often somewhat confrontational as cognitive psychologists attempt to
change the irrational ways their clients think. A common problem that cognitive psychologists fight
is depressed people’s tendency to globalize and internalize negative thoughts as evidenced by
Ivan’s assertion that he is completely worthless. The statements in choices A and E would more
likely be made by a psychoanalytic or psychodynamic theorist as they suggest that the roots of many
problems are laid in childhood and they stress the importance of the unconscious mind to which
dreams are clues. The statement in choice B would most likely be made by a behaviorist as it
stresses the importance of behavior, and the statement in D reflects humanistic psychologists’ belief
in being nondirective and reflecting back what their clients say.
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