Cognitive Approach Flashcards
What is the Cognitive Approach?
The studying of mental processes such as biases, thinking and memory.
What are the four Factors in the Cognitive Approach?
Self-Regulation, Self-Medication, Cognitive Dissonance and Professional Biases.
What is Self-Regulation?
Using a schema to understand + manage your behaviour to react accordingly to things happening around you.
What is Self-Medication in the Cognitive Approach?
Using an unhealthy amount of a substance to block out trauma.
Links to Self-Medication Theory as it says there’s an underlying cause to doing drugs (trauma).
What are Professional Biases?
Unconscious biases a practitioner may have towards a patient.
What is the strength of the Cognitive Approach?
Professionals can be trained to avoid Professional Biases, which is good as it means its more likely a patient will be treated worse.
What is the weakness of the Cognitive Approach?
It ignores genetics and other factors, showing this isn’t a full explanation.
What is Cognitive Dissonance?
When your thoughts do not reflect your actions.
What is a schema?
A mental package of information that tells us how to act in certain situations.
