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Question 1
Luther’s friends take him out for his first taste of sushi, and he hates the flavor of the very first piece he tries. “Nope, I’m done. Sushi is absolutely disgusting,” he tells his friends. Luther is engaging in a cognitive distortion called blank.
Question 2
Nikki is very upset that her favorite baseball team lost its playoff series. “If I had dyed my hair black and gold we would have won,” she says. Nikki’s action of taking the blame for something for which she had no responsibility is called blank.
Question 3
Which theorist was noted for his suggestion that psychotherapy should focus on identifying clients’ cognitive distortions and helping them replace those errors with more adaptive thinking?
Question 4
Your Take! Do you think that cognitive distortions play any adaptive function in our lives? When might it be good to not think about things in a totally realistic or rational manner?