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Understanding Human Behaviour
The cognitive perspective: Beck and Ellis
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Overview
Central claim of the cognitive perspective, negative automatic thoughts and schema as the cognitive perspective uses the term.
What you need to know
Answer each one before you reveal it.
What are negative automatic thoughts?
Define a schema as the cognitive perspective uses the term.
Questions from this subtopic
Each one with the model answer underneath.
- 1
State the central claim of the cognitive perspective.
Model answer
The cognitive perspective claims that how a person interprets an event, rather than the event itself, determines how they feel and behave.
- 2
Who proposed the cognitive triad, and what is it?
Model answer
Aaron Beck proposed the cognitive triad, arguing that a depressed person holds negative views of the self, of the world around them and of the future.
- 3
What are negative automatic thoughts?
Model answer
Negative automatic thoughts are the immediate, unbidden pessimistic interpretations Beck said run through a depressed person's mind without being questioned.
- 4
Define a schema as the cognitive perspective uses the term.
Model answer
A schema is a mental framework built from past experience that guides how new information is noticed, understood and remembered.
- 5
Explain overgeneralisation as a cognitive distortion.
Model answer
Overgeneralisation is drawing a sweeping conclusion from one event, so a single rejection is taken as proof that nobody will ever accept the person.
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What is catastrophising?
Model answer
Catastrophising is treating a setback as a disaster and assuming the worst possible outcome will follow from it.
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