The cognitive approach to explaining depression taken from AQA textbook in relation to psychopathology in paper one of psychology, including evaluation.
Faulty information processing
Beck 619677
suggested that some
people are more
prone to depression because
of faulty information processing ie
thinking in a
flawed way
.
.
When depressed people attend to the
negative aspects of a situation t
ignore positives ,
they also tend to blow small
problems out of
'
proportion in black and White
'
+ think terms .
Depressed people have
negative self
-
schema
A
information through experience interpret
' '
schema and to the so
is a
package of
ideas
developed we use schema word ,
if a
person
.
has a
negative self -
schema
they interpret all
information about themselves in a
negative way
.
The
negative traia
There 3
are elements to the
negative raid :
negative view world
-
the
of
view
•
negative of the
future
negative view
-
of the
self .
Ellis C. 1962) ABC model
A -
activating event
Ellis suggested that depression arises irrational
from thoughts
.
According to Ellis depression occurs when we
experience negative events
eg gaining
: an
important test
l stand it itis is the
belief that its
go smoothly
'
cant disaster dont
a when
things
-
- - -
just
'
utopianism is the
belief that the world must
always be
fair and .
C-
consequences
when an irrational beliefs there emotional and behavioural
activating event
triggers
are con
segues .
For example ,
if you believe
you must
always svceedt then
you fail
at
something , the
consequence is depression
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