Depression: Cognitive Flashcards

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AO1

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Depression is caused by faulty thinking processes bout reality which impact on mood
(how they interpret the world)
Catastrophising-escalating tiny problems into much bigger one’s
All or nothing thoughts
Black/white thinking
Learn maladaptive thoughts through past experiences ie learned helplessness
Become automatic schemas
Interpret everything negatively=low mood
Believes people are critical of them
Helplessness develops=even lower mood
Becomes socially withdrawn

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AO1: Attribution style

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Attribution of negative life events to being internal (their fault)
Stable (it will be like this all the time)
Global (every stituation/relationship)
Will be more lickely to be depressed

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AO1: Beck

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Suggested if you had a negative view of yourself, the future and world you will be highly susceptible to triggering depression

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+AO3

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CBT works

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+Seligman

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Dogs show learned helplessness can lead to features much like depression in animals

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+Yost & Weary (1996)

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Compared attributions of people of 58 depressed students and 57 non-drpressed students.
Found when making self attributions the depressed people were more lickely to judge negative behaviours and events as due to their own short comings (internal)

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+ Alloy and Abramson (1999)

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Longitudinal study of students
Identified those with a negative self-schema
Negative thoughts patterns had a greater risk of depression

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+Beck

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Asked depressed and clinically normal people to keep diaries

Depressed individuals made more negative judgements about themselves (automatic even when it made no sense

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-AO3

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Problems with empiricism (subjective)
Cause and effect
Reductionist (ignores biology)
Drugs work so it can’t not be biological to some degree

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-Lewinsohn et al (2001)

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Researched adolescent depression and found stressed and dysfunctional attitudes rather than environmental factors was the strongest predictor of depression.
Little evidence that cognitive distortions are present before depression

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