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18 Cards in this Set
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Who developed Cognitive Therapy?
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Aaron Beck
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What are schemas
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Underlying cognitive structures, or patterns of assumptions/thoughts/beliefs that determine how individuals codify, categorize, and interpret their experiences
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How do schemas develop?
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Develop early in life
Product of biological, developmental, and environmental factors |
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What are depressogenic schemas?
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Dysfunctional schemas
May be dormant until they are activated by internal or external stress |
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What are 5 common cognitive distortions?
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1. Arbitrary inference
2. Overgeneralization 3. Selective abstraction 4. Personalization 5. Polarized thinking |
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What is arbitrary inference?
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Drawing conclusions without evidence
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What is overgeneralization?
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Drawing general conclusions on the basis of one event
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What is selective abstraction?
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Attending to detail while ignoring the total context
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What is personalization?
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Erroneously attributing external events to oneself
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What is polarized thinking?
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Thinking in black-or-white fashion
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According to Beck, what characterizes a psychological disorder?
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Different cognitive profiles
i.e. Depression involves a cognitive triad of a negative view of oneself, the world, and the future |
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Who developed Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)?
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Albert Ellis
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What is RET?
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Viewing behavior as a chain of events- A, B, and C
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What is A in the chain of events?
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External event to which the individual is exposed
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What is B in the chain of events?
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The belief the individual has about A
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What is C in the chain of events?
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The emotion or behavior that results from B
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Summarize the chain of events
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An emotional or behavioral response to an event is due to beliefs a person has about the event, rather than to the event itself
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What is the primary cause of neurosis according to RET?
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The continual repetition of certain common irrational beliefs
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