COGNITIVE PERSPECTIVE Flashcards
A perspective which examines internal mental process such as creativity, perception, thinking, problem solving ,memory and language
Cognitive perspective
It is a mental representations that reflect who someone is—the beliefs, experiences, and generalizations about the self in events or situation
Self-schema
This is our automatic thoughts about the events or situations
schema
How abnormal behaviors formed according to cognitive perspective?
It is due to faulty and irrational thoughs
Who proposed that we all have set of assumptions about ourselves and this guides our life and behavior in the events
Albert Ellis
It is people’s assumption that are largely irrational that make them to limit chance of being happy in life
basic irrational beliefs
What are the ABC models of irrational beliefs?
Activating events
Beliefs
Consequences
He believes that the cause of abnormal behavior is distorted thinking (cognitive distortion)
Aaron Beck
What are the three types of cognitive distortions?
Magnification, overgeneralization and selective abstraction
What is magnification?
Magnifying the minor events
What is overgeneralization
Overgeneralizing little evidence
What is selective abstraction?
Paying attention to small evidence that you ignore the equally relevant information
What are the three forms of negative thinking typical for depressive people?
negative thinking of self, world and future
Two psychologists believed that maladaptive behavior as the joint product of unfortunate life experiences
John Dollard and Neal Miller
