PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Attribution Bias, Psychopathology, Information Processing

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 602
• Professor: Karen Milligan

Document Summary

Chapter 3 developmental psychopathology biopsychosocial models. Behaviours are learned and maintained by thoughts, emotions, and external events. Emphasizes the role of: information processing (eg. perception, attention, and memory, attitudes, beliefs, and interpretation of the world. Abnormal and normal behaviour are both learned. Cognition can be monitored, analyzed and altered. Changing your thoughts can lead to behaviour change (eg. change the situation or the interpretation of the situation) Underlie the development and maintenance of disorder. Cognitive structures schemas that represent information/experiences stored in memory: schema scripts, stereotypes frameworks for managing information, eg. Cognitive processes how people perceive or interpret experience teacher can really help them: attributions (positive and negative, thinking about the causes of events, eg. Hostile attribution bias (crick and dodge, 1994: eg. Positive illusory bias (owens et al. , 2007: cognitive distortions patterns of unrealistic thinking, overestimate control over an outcome, overestimate the likelihood of an outcome, all-or-nothing thinking black and white thinking, eg.