cognitive rehearsal

a therapeutic technique in which a client imagines those situations that tend to produce anxiety or self-defeating behavior and then repeats positive coping statements or mentally rehearses more appropriate behavior.

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November 17th 2024

biased elaboration

the tendency to generate a particular valence of evaluative responses preferentially when elaborating attitude-relevant information. See also biasing factor; elaboration; objective elaboration.