Question

An athlete, who is in fact well-prepared, nevertheless thinks just before a contest, "i cannot do this! i need to be perfect, and i know i'm going to fail!" the theorist who would focus on the athlete's illogical thinking process as a key factor in his subsequent poor performance most likely would support which model of abnormality?

Answer 1

Answer is: model of abnormality is cognitive.
Cognitive process is mental action (knowledge, attention, memory, judgment, evaluation, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, undestanding) through thought, experience and the senses.
This well prepared athlete has problem with judgment and reasoning.

Answer 2

They would support the cognitive model. This model holds that much of what causes a person to be "abnormal" is simply due to faulty thought patterns. These patterns can be rectified by working on and changing the lines of thought to those that are more "normative." The thoughts that are negative can be removed and replaced with those that are more positive.