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Understanding Human Behaviour

The cognitive perspective: Beck and Ellis

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Central claim of the cognitive perspective, negative automatic thoughts and schema as the cognitive perspective uses the term.

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State the central claim of the cognitive perspective.

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What are negative automatic thoughts?

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Define a schema as the cognitive perspective uses the term.

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  1. 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. 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. 3

    What are negative automatic thoughts?

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    Negative automatic thoughts are the immediate, unbidden pessimistic interpretations Beck said run through a depressed person's mind without being questioned.

  4. 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. 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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