Bud has been diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. he and his therapist are discussing what happened at school yesterday. bud's psychology professor surprised the class with a pop quiz. while bud had been doing well in class up until that point, he had not had a chance to do his reading because he worked until midnight the night before; therefore, he failed the pop quiz. bud's therapist asked him to share his thoughts about failing the pop quiz. bud replied, "i should have known we'd have a pop quiz. i should have stayed up after work or gotten up early this morning to do my reading. i know i will fail the class now! " bud's therapist retorted with, "why do you think you have the ability to predict what will happen? that is ridiculous. it is just a pop quiz. didn't you tell me that your professor drops a low score anyway? " his therapist continued on in this directive manner. based on this interaction, it seems likely that bud's therapist is providing him with :
o rational emotive behavior therapy.
o gestalt therapy
o beck's cognitive therapy.
o humanistic therapy.

O rational emotive behavior therapy.

Explanation:

Rational emotive behavior therapy: In psychology, the term rational emotive behavior therapy is also denoted as REBT and is also known as rational emotive therapy, and rational therapy. It was proposed by Albert Ellis.

REBT is defined as an empirically, active-directive, and philosophically based form of psychotherapy, and it focuses on resolving the behavioral and emotional disturbances and problems and therefore helping people to carry out a satisfied and happy life. REBT helps the clients to change his or her negative mind and irrational thoughts to recover psychological issues.

REBT therapists helps the clients to develop three different types of acceptance:

1. Unconditional life-acceptance.

2. Unconditional self-acceptance.

3. Unconditional other-acceptance.

In the question above, Bud's therapist is providing him with REBT.

answer: musical connotation

leonard b. meyer (1918-2007) was an american composer, author and philosopher. his work emotion and meaning in music is perhaps the first major treatise on music. it is a philosophical and psychological work, greatly influenced by koffka (one of the major proponents of gestalt psychology). his work deals with the problem of musical meaning and musical communication.