Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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T/F: Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) makes use of both cognitive and
behavioral techniques, but it does not use emotive techniques. - Answer✔✔-
False
T/F: REBT practitioners strive to unconditionally accept all clients and to teach
them to unconditionally accept others and themselves. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: Cognitive therapy, an evidence-based therapy for depression, was
developed by Meichenbaum. - Answer✔✔-False
T/F: A major contribution made by Ellis, the Becks, Padesky and Mooney, and
Meichenbaum is the demystification of the therapy process. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: Ellis shares Rogers's view of the client-therapist relationship as a condition
for change to occur within clients. - Answer✔✔-False
,T/F: Beck developed a procedure known as stress inoculation training. -
Answer✔✔-False
T/F: According to Albert Ellis, to feel worthwhile, human beings need love and
acceptance from significant others. - Answer✔✔-False
T/F: Ellis maintains that events themselves do not cause emotional
disturbances; rather, it is our evaluation of and beliefs about these events that
cause our problems. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: A difference between Beck's cognitive therapy and Ellis's REBT is that Beck
places more emphasis on helping clients discover their misconceptions for
themselves than does Ellis. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: According to Beck, people become disturbed when they label, interpret,
and evaluate themselves by a set of rules that are unrealistic. - Answer✔✔-
True
What is a part of stress inoculation training? - Answer✔✔-a combination of
information giving, Socratic discovery-oriented inquiry, cognitive restructuring,
problem solving, relaxation training, behavioral rehearsals, self-monitoring,
self-instruction, self-reinforcement, and modifying environmental situations.
REBT is based on the premise that human beings - Answer✔✔-learn irrational
beliefs from significant others during childhood and then re-create these
irrational beliefs throughout our lifetime.
, REBT is based on the assumption that - Answer✔✔-cognitions, emotions, and
behaviors interact significantly
REBT views the core of emotional disturbances to be - Answer✔✔-Blame
One of the most common CBT group approaches is - Answer✔✔-based on
REBT principles and techniques.
Here are three basics musts (or irrational beliefs) we internalize that inevitably
lead to self-defeat: - Answer✔✔--"I must do well and be loved and approved
by others."
-"Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well."
-"The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just,
providing me with all that I want in life."
The main idea of SB-CBT is that active incorporation of client strengths
encourages clients to - Answer✔✔-engage more fully in therapy and often
provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.
REBT is more direct and confrontational in uncovering and disputing irrational
thoughts, whereas Meichenbaum's self-instructional training focuses more on -
Answer✔✔-helping clients become aware of their self-talk and the stories they
tell about themselves.
Which of the following is one of several common cognitive distortions
identified in cognitive therapy? - Answer✔✔--Selective abstraction
-Faulty information processing
-Arbitrary inferences
Exam Study Guide – Practice
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Answers. GRADED A+. Latest
2026/2027 Update.
T/F: Rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) makes use of both cognitive and
behavioral techniques, but it does not use emotive techniques. - Answer✔✔-
False
T/F: REBT practitioners strive to unconditionally accept all clients and to teach
them to unconditionally accept others and themselves. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: Cognitive therapy, an evidence-based therapy for depression, was
developed by Meichenbaum. - Answer✔✔-False
T/F: A major contribution made by Ellis, the Becks, Padesky and Mooney, and
Meichenbaum is the demystification of the therapy process. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: Ellis shares Rogers's view of the client-therapist relationship as a condition
for change to occur within clients. - Answer✔✔-False
,T/F: Beck developed a procedure known as stress inoculation training. -
Answer✔✔-False
T/F: According to Albert Ellis, to feel worthwhile, human beings need love and
acceptance from significant others. - Answer✔✔-False
T/F: Ellis maintains that events themselves do not cause emotional
disturbances; rather, it is our evaluation of and beliefs about these events that
cause our problems. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: A difference between Beck's cognitive therapy and Ellis's REBT is that Beck
places more emphasis on helping clients discover their misconceptions for
themselves than does Ellis. - Answer✔✔-True
T/F: According to Beck, people become disturbed when they label, interpret,
and evaluate themselves by a set of rules that are unrealistic. - Answer✔✔-
True
What is a part of stress inoculation training? - Answer✔✔-a combination of
information giving, Socratic discovery-oriented inquiry, cognitive restructuring,
problem solving, relaxation training, behavioral rehearsals, self-monitoring,
self-instruction, self-reinforcement, and modifying environmental situations.
REBT is based on the premise that human beings - Answer✔✔-learn irrational
beliefs from significant others during childhood and then re-create these
irrational beliefs throughout our lifetime.
, REBT is based on the assumption that - Answer✔✔-cognitions, emotions, and
behaviors interact significantly
REBT views the core of emotional disturbances to be - Answer✔✔-Blame
One of the most common CBT group approaches is - Answer✔✔-based on
REBT principles and techniques.
Here are three basics musts (or irrational beliefs) we internalize that inevitably
lead to self-defeat: - Answer✔✔--"I must do well and be loved and approved
by others."
-"Other people must treat me fairly, kindly, and well."
-"The world and my living conditions must be comfortable, gratifying, and just,
providing me with all that I want in life."
The main idea of SB-CBT is that active incorporation of client strengths
encourages clients to - Answer✔✔-engage more fully in therapy and often
provides avenues for change that otherwise would be missed.
REBT is more direct and confrontational in uncovering and disputing irrational
thoughts, whereas Meichenbaum's self-instructional training focuses more on -
Answer✔✔-helping clients become aware of their self-talk and the stories they
tell about themselves.
Which of the following is one of several common cognitive distortions
identified in cognitive therapy? - Answer✔✔--Selective abstraction
-Faulty information processing
-Arbitrary inferences
