Question

A therapist helps a client by focusing on her misguided thinking patterns. The therapist believes that by modifying how someone is processing information about the world, that this will help the person's overall mental health. For this therapist, there is an emphasis on thinking and processing.

With which of psychology's major perspectives does this therapist most closely align?

A. cognitive

B. psychoanalytic theory

C. behaviorist

D. humanistic

Answer 1

A. cognitive.

the therapist wants to focus on the clients thinking patterns. the cognitive approach studies internal mental processes such as perception. ("the therapist believes that by modifying how someone is processing information about the world") the therapist wants to approach the client and study their perception and highlighted processing of information.