Cognitive distortion

4. According to the cognitive model, depression can be influenced by biology, biochemistry, or behavior (reading). Each one of these components is treated as a different level of analysis. Depression is learned, but it can be unlearned; that is, according to Aaron Beck’s cognitive model, depression can be produced through your negative thought processes about the self, future and the world. We refer to this as the “cognitive triad of depression” (reading). These negative biases can lead to…

say that they remember when the plane in Pennsylvania crashed or when the Pentagon was hit, despite the fact that they could have been at home and not heard those details until the news reports came out. 4e: Source monitoring errors relate to the distortion in flashbulb memories because people have the ability to plagiarize inadvertently, believing that their memory was self-generated even when it could be a news report. For instance, after seeing the video footage of the World Trade Center…

Cognitive therapy was founded by Aaron Beck, and he based this therapeutic approach on two main ideas. The first idea is that individuals who are depressed have a negativity bias in their thinking, and the second idea is that the way individuals interpret the events around them contributes to the maintenance of their depression (Ball, n.d.). In a more refined sense by Ball (n.d.) it can be said that cognitive therapy is based on the premise that it is not the event itself that the individual…

“wrong” modes of thinking, outlining “rational” and “irrational” beliefs for REBT, for example. Cognitive Therapy, developed by Aaron…

What are the main factors of eyewitness inaccuracies? Eyewitness accounts are one way that police, judges, and many authorities in power use in order to find perpetrators and convict them. However many of the times people are wrongly convicted because the victim or witness was positive that they had seen the suspect there or that they were the one’s committing the crime. Of course there are many ways such as DNA, video proof, finger prints in order to determine if a person truly is guilty and…

The strengths reflected by cognitive theory are those that provide knowledge about relationships, enhances perpetual skills, improves decision-making skills, and improves assessment skills (Nylund, 2015). Some criticisms of the theory suggest that cognitive theory focuses primarily on the individual and not the environment as a dynamic (Walsh, 2006, p 196). Furthermore, this theory does not focus on an individual’s emotions, such as crying, since the theory is over rationalized. This perspective…

emerged in research. With the progress of current findings on FBMs, future studies are vital to develop an assessment model of FBMs in an attempt to fully consider how they are formed, stored and processed cognitively, to advance our understanding of cognitive processes on memory and potentially prevent and treat disorders of…

judging and reasoning” (44). Thus, the meaning of classic cognitive behaviour therapy refers to the practice of integrating theory and research on conscious processes. In other words, cognitive behaviour therapy refers to the direct manipulation of an individual’s conspicuous and inconspicuous behaviour with feelings and thoughts are interpreted as internal or covert behaviours. Namely, the psychiatrist Aaron Beck (1976) created Cognitive Theory. Beck’s theory has to do with manipulating…

Depression: A Cognitive-Behavioral Perspective Aetiology of depression is multifactorial, with risk factors including low levels of parental warmth, high levels of family hostility, abuse and poverty (Gledhill & Hodes, 2010). Environment, cognitive and behavior are significant factors that cause the onset and duration of depression (Carvalho, Trent, & Hopko, 2011). Depression can affect all aspects of life, and may even lead to more serious problems including suicide. Although there is still a…

autobiographical memory entails peoples’ recall of events that they think they experienced when in fact that event did not occur (Simone, 2016, lec 3). Furthermore, in answering the question above, we look at cognitive explanations and social interactionist explanations. According to cognitive psychologists Devitt, Monk-Fromont, Schacter & Addis (2015), the memory system is flexibly constructive. Thus making it susceptible to occasional conjunction errors, whereby constituents of an event are…