Psychopathology- The Cognitive Approach To Explaining Depression Evaluation

Question 1

✅ cog theories statistics

Answer 1

✅- cog theories that explain depression led to effective cog therapies MARCH SHOWED THAT CBT had effectiveness of 81% after 36 weeks of drug therapy-as treatment is successful-suggest underlying cog explanations must be valid

Question 2

✅ grrr

Answer 2

Grazioli & Terry (2000)
-assessed thinking styles of 65 women before giving birth and 6 weeks after-those w negative thinking styles most likely to have depression

SUPPORTS IDEA THAT FAULTY THINKING =DEPRESSION

Question 3

❌ -ir.

Answer 3

Cog therapies depends on the assumptions yjat the person w/ depression thought’s are irrational-their thoughts may be reasonable responses to their situation poverty,racism. financial challenges etc.

Question 4

❌fam

Answer 4

Family studies and genetic rs. suggests a predisposition to depression is inherited- likely genes that influence activity of the neurochemicals like serotonin in the brain suggesting that there is a biological element to it

Question 5

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Answer 5

many people w/ depression also experience anger, manic phases, happy , ober-excited phases and etc.

These features can be hard to explain w theories like beck’s triad.