Cognitive approach to psychopathology
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- Created on: 10-04-13 19:59
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- Cognitive approach to psychopathology
- Accepts the behavioural approach but focuses on the thoughts that causes the behaviour and faulty thoughts known as 'cognitive errors' cause the abnormal behaviour
- Types of cognitive errors
- Automatic thoughts- occur without thinking
- More negative thoughts and inaccurate attributions in abnormal people
- Attributions- -peoples attempts to make sense of their own world and other peoples behaviour
- More negative thoughts and inaccurate attributions in abnormal people
- Automatic thoughts- occur without thinking
- Faulty cognitive processes
- Over generalisation
- Example: getting a bad grade and thinking you're going to fail everything
- Magnification of failures and minimisation of successes
- Example: pessimistic approach to life
- Investigated through clinical observations and questionnaires and interviews
- Over generalisation
- Example: getting a bad grade and thinking you're going to fail everything
- Over generalisation
- Over generalisation
- Support: focus is on current thoughts, people with OCD report irrational and unjustifiable thoughts, influential and popular model - cognitive therapists employed by the NHS, empowers people - gives them responsibility to change their thoughts
- Limitations: doesn't take enough notice of physiological and environmental influences, unscientific - thoughts can't be observed or measured, chicken and egg problem, blames the induvidual, perhaps thought processes are not irrational
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