PSY-35 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Aaron T. Beck, Cognitive Bias, University Of Western Ontario
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Depressed individuals thinking is biased toward negative interpretations. Negative schema: tendency to see the world and self negatively. Negative schemata is activated in the depressed individual when they encounter new situations that resemble the conditions in which the schemata was learned. Cognitive bias fuels and is fuelled by schemata as well, leading to misperception of reality. Negative triad: negative views of the self, world, and future. World: refers to the persons judgement that they cannot cope with the demands of the environment. Dysfunctional attitudes: negative cognitive attitudes that confer risk for depression. Dysfunctional attitudes scale (das): 40 items self report measures. (1) dysfunctional beliefs re ecting the need for approval. (2) dysfunctional beliefs re ecting the need for achievement and perfection. Das scores are higher in clients with recurrent episodes than those experiencing their. Perfectionist attitudes best predicted the number of recurrent episodes.
